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 CONTENTS
Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Scavenger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Seether. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Military of the Cryxian Empire. . . . . . . . 6
Shrike. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Theme Force. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Slayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Stalker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Warcasters of Cryx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Barathrum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Warcaster Model Entries Cankerworm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Deathjack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Bane Witch Agathia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Erebus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Captain Aiakos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Kharybdis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Iron Lich Asphyxious . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Malice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Lich Lord Asphyxious . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Nightmare. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Asphyxious the Hellbringer & Vociferon . . . . 30
Kraken . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Warwitch Deneghra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Sepulcher. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Wraith Witch Deneghra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Deneghra, the Soul Weaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Troops of Cryx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Goreshade the Bastard & Deathwalker. . . 40
Unit & Solo Model Entries
Goreshade the Cursed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Goreshade, Lord of Ruin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Bile Thralls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Master Necrotech Mortenebra Carrion Thralls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

& Deryliss. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Mechanithralls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Mortenebra, Numen of Necrogenesis . . . . . 50 Skarlock Commander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Lord Exhumator Scaverous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Brute Thrall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Pirate Queen Skarre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Necrosurgeon & Stitch Thralls . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Skarre, Queen of the Broken Coast . . . . . . 56 Soulhunters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Sturgis the Corrupted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 The Withershadow Combine. . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Lich Lord Terminus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Bloat Thrall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Lich Lord Venethrax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Iron Lich Overseer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
The Witch Coven of Garlghast Machine Wraith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
& Egregore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Necrotech & Scrap Thralls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Warjacks of Cryx. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Pistol Wraith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Skarlock Thrall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Warjack Model Entries Soul Trapper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Corruptor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Warwitch Siren. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Deathripper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Aiakos, Scourge of the Meredius. . . . . . . . . 126
Defiler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Bloat Thrall Overseer Mobius . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Desecrator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Hellslinger Phantom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Harrower. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Darragh Wrathe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Helldiver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Wraith Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Inflictor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Model Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Leviathan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Nightwretch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Painting Your Army . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Reaper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Ripjaw. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

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 FOREWORD
The armies of Cryx spread like a cancer across the nations whether it be the macabre majesty of Lich Lord Terminus,
of western Immoren. Every battle serves only to swell their the withering power of Warwitch Deneghra, or the ritualistic
ranks as necrosurgeons pick the charnel fields clean. These magic of Pirate Queen Skarre. When they lead their unnatural
tireless meatsmiths imbue the corpses with fell magic, fit and fearsome warjacks into battle, few mortal foes can hope
them with cruel mechanika, and instill in them a powerful to stand against them.
lust for destruction. From brutally simple yet terrifyingly
Within its pages, Forces of WARMACHINE: Cryx Command gives
efficient mechanithralls and carrion thralls to far darker and
you an extensive look at the background of the Nightmare
more sinister undead abominations like the skarlock thralls
Empire of Cryx and access to all of its wicked warcasters and
and murderous pistol wraiths, the undying legions of the
death-fueled warjacks, as well as a range of units and solos to
dragonfather Toruk need neither rest nor respite. They desire
support them on the battlefield. This volume also introduces
only the screams of the dying and the carnage of war.
four new servants of the Dragonfather—warcasters Captain
Alongside these undead soldiers march the nefarious Aiakos and Mortenebra, Numen of Necrogenesis; the
Cryxian warjacks, shadow-forged machines laden with terrifying character helljack Kharybdis; and the Wraith solo
gruesome weaponry and powered by foul necrotite—a known as the Hellslinger Phantom.
substance created from the agonized energies of death
Along with the wealth of information about specific models
itself. Far more savage and cunning than the warjacks of
that can form the core of any Cryxian army, this book
other nations, the bonejacks and helljacks of the Nightmare
includes the first new Cryx theme force: Infernal Machines.
Empire are unholy demons given form in black metal, their
This theme force allows you to overwhelm your foes in a
cortexes tailored by Cryxian necrotechs to amplify their
black-iron tide of bonejacks and helljacks.
predatory, malicious nature.
The unending and utterly loyal masses of undead thralls and
Commanding the black armies of Cryx are its warcasters,
necrotite-powered warjacks of Cryx stand ready to snuff out
masters of necromancy who work tirelessly to spread their
the living at your command. Embrace the shadow, raise the
master’s dark dominion across the Iron Kingdoms. Each
dead, and let the Iron Kingdoms fall by your hand!
Cryxian warcaster wields the strength of a small army,

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 MILITARY OF THE
CRYXIAN EMPIRE
CLAWS OF THE DRAGONFATHER
For centuries outsiders have had little awareness of the vast
power of the Nightmare Empire of Cryx. To the mainland
nations, Cryx seemed a remote and mysterious threat, a
haven for criminals and undead horrors, with few witnesses
to verify the atrocities ascribed to them. The dragon god
Toruk created this empire to serve his needs and spent over
a millennium shaping it into a weapon that could extend
his reach across the continent. Mainlanders avoided these
islands, and they had little contact with Cryxians beyond
brutal clashes with raiding pirates and the reaving dead.
Survivors spoke of dread vessels that blazed with an unholy
and unquenchable fire and of strange soul-burning machines
that emerged from the waves to slaughter the unwary before
disappearing back into the mists.
Only in the last decade have mainlanders come to learn the
scope of the armed forces serving the Nightmare Empire.
Across western Immoren, armies of the dead emerged to
plague the living, having lain in wait just beneath the notice
of their many enemies. Only by throwing aside ancient
rivalries and working together in 609 AR did the Iron
Kingdoms avoid total annihilation under a crushing wave
of Cryxian nightmares. Even then, they merely dispersed
the forces of Cryx, and Cryxians still lurk in the shadows in
countless numbers.
Lord Toruk desires only to eradicate his progeny, and the
armies of Cryx exist only to serve the Dragonfather. Coastal
raids are but deceptions to mask greater troop movements
and incursions by which Toruk plants his minions deep
within the mainland. Once the nations of mortals have fallen,
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Toruk will drag all other dragons, his spawn, from their
hiding places to devour them.
Toruk, the
Dragonfather
In Cryx only one master reigns supreme—Lord Toruk, the
Dragonfather. An entity both sovereign and divine, he is
described by his faithful as the first god of Caen. All who
dwell in Cryx do so at Toruk’s sufferance. No entity on Caen
is more feared.
The Church of Toruk teaches that, long before the Nightmare
Empire or the mortal nations came into being, when the
world was young and not yet fully formed, Toruk soared
alone over a lifeless Caen for an interminable epoch of
isolation. Eventually life arose, and Toruk observed teeming
hordes of short-lived creatures crawling, swimming, and
flying below him. He was seized by the urge to create other
dragons, to spawn his own progeny. He did not reproduce
the way nature does but rather carved pieces from his
otherwise imperishable athanc—the crystalline heart that
formed the core of his divinity. Each shard became a dragon.
These great beings proved more willful than Toruk had
anticipated, however, defying their father and turning upon
him. Since that time Toruk has sought to undo his creation
by consuming each dragon in turn—a great hunt that has
stretched over six millennia.
For the immortal lords of Cryx who serve Toruk directly, no
other goals take precedence over this pursuit. Toruk created
 Lich Lord Occult Research
Infrastructure
Divinitus
Lich Lord Church of Toruk Lich Lord
Corripio Fulmenus
Archive of Skell Necromancy
Lich Lord
Tenebrous
Lich Lord Esoteric Occult Lore
Angorus
Treasury, Resources
Lich Lord
Venethrax
Lich Lord
Thalassina
Foreign Affairs
TORUK Draconic Lore

Dragon
Hunter Incursion

Lich Lord Lich Lord

Malathrax Scopulous
Cryxian Defenses
Espionage

Reserve Garrisons
Lich Lord Lich Lord
Terminus Asphyxious
Conquest & Navy War Industry
Mainland & Conquest Vacant Lich Lord
Intelligence Position
Networks (Formerly Morbus)
Necrofactorium
Invasion Incursion
Garrisons

Cryxian Fleets
Skarre Ravenmane,
Queen of the Broken Coast

Black Fleet Slaughter Fleet Pirate Fleet Ghost Fleet

Ships: 16+
SHIPS: 75+ Transport Ships: 25+ Ships: 550+
Admiral Skarre Ravenmane Ghost Fleet operates largely
*Admiral Korgal the Blacktooth Admiral Axiara Wraithblade autonomously

Slaughter Army Pirates & Atramentous

Bloodgorgers, Black Ogrun
Axiara�s Raiders Smugglers ANCIENT
SHIPS: 25+ SHIPS: 525+ DIRGENMAST
General Gerlak Slaughterborn Captain Rengrave,
Admiral Axiara Wraithblade Includes many smaller vessels
*Korgal defers to Slaughterborn First Citizen of Cryx
and prize ships

Remaining Bloated Bilge Plunder Dirge Death Knell

Flagship Flotilla TREASURE GALLEON FRIGATE FAST FRIGATE FAST FRIGATE
Ships: 15+
Black Fleet Revenants Revenants Revenants Revenants
Ships: 60+ Captain Wineblood Captain Galloway Captain Magrott Captain Farwain

The four cinder ships most commonly seen with the Atramentous

Raider Wing Escort Wing

TRANSPORT SHIPS: 4+ SHIPS: 5+
Fleet Captain
Flagships
Fleet Captain
Tryme Selvixen Kelvexis Darkreef

Widower Maledictor Exhumation

Ill Tidings Blood Tempest Branding Iron
BLACKSHIP BLACKSHIP BLACKSHIP
BLACKSHIP BLACKSHIP BLACKSHIP
Satyxis, Thralls, Black Ogrun/Loaned Necrosurgeons,
Satyxis Satyxis Warjacks,
Wraiths Revenant Crew Thralls
Captain Velmexria Captain Xysa Necrotechs
Queen Skarre Captain Jorvak Captain Anathius
Dawnblood Shoalbreaker Captain Vemolluc
Ravenmane Earcutter (skarlock)
 the Nightmare Empire of Cryx sixteen centuries ago after
an alliance of the dragons drove him from the mainland, and
he dedicated the ever-expanding and evolving armies of Cryx
to eventually restoring his athanc to wholeness through the
annihilation of these dragons. No simple task, this ultimate
goal required innumerable bloody clashes with the mainland
nations and other rival powers.
Toruk is a font of seemingly limitless power, the blackened
heart of an empire built on necromantic principles deriving
from his supremely potent blight. This radiant energy seeps
from his athanc and spreads out across hundreds of miles,
affecting all it touches. It is by Toruk’s blight that the dead are
made to rise again and the chosen servants of Toruk receive
unparalleled occult power and become immortal, freed from
the clutches of the lesser gods, most of whom have been
banished to Urcaen, no longer able to manifest on Caen.
Toruk’s mind is vast and alien, occupied with higher
matters beyond mortal reckoning. He takes no interest in the
countless quotidian tasks required for the smooth running
of his empire. Such minutiae he leaves to the twelve lich
lords created to lead in his stead, each responsible for their
individual dominions. They in turn delegate tasks to their
own chosen lieutenants, many of them iron liches, wraiths,
or other self-willed undead. Due to his imperishable nature,
Toruk’s concept of time is quite unlike that of mortals, and
his plans sometimes unfold on a protracted timeline.
In 609 AR, escalating battles among competing powers
distracted the dragons from their vigil against their father
and culminated in a clash in the skies over the Wyrmwall
Mountains. Toruk took wing for the first time in centuries,
seeing an opportunity to recover what he had lost. The
Dragonfather succeeded in feasting on the athanc of the
dragon Charsaug and wounded most of the others before
each side retreated. Toruk did not emerge unscathed from
this battle of immortals and withdrew to Skell to recuperate
and plot his next move. The lich lords are under considerable
pressure to secure another great victory as soon as possible.
These undead lords fear that Toruk’s festering wounds have
left the empire vulnerable, though none dare speak such
blasphemies aloud.
Toruk’s Citadel & the Black
Temple
The Dragonfather dwells in a great citadel ornamented with
metal spires resembling grasping claws, attended by his
priests and the lich lords. Beneath the citadel lies the Black
Temple, the center of Toruk’s worship, where his undead
clergy gather at the direction of Lich Lord Divinitus to
chant obeisance to the God of Caen. Mainland faiths do not
accept Toruk’s claim of primacy or divinity, but it remains an
unquestioned fact in the island empire. To suggest otherwise
is to invite retaliation by the merciless blighted priests of the
Church of Toruk.
MILITARY OF THE CRYXIAN EMPIRE
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The greatest of Toruk’s clergy are undead, but the largest
number are still alive, though horribly rotted from intense
blight. Their flesh undergoes a perpetual cycle of decay, rot,
and regeneration, sprouting disfiguring cancerous deformities.
The clergy of the Black Temple pays occasional visits to every
community in Cryx, where they serve as the eyes and ears
of Divinitus, enforcing orthodoxy and rooting out those
who speak ill of the Dragonfather. They also ensure Cryxian
funeral services harvest useful souls and cadavers for use as
raw materials in the necrofactoriums of Skell. Such corpses are
sometimes referred to as the tithe of the Black Temple.
All priests periodically return to the Black Temple, which
contains the strongest concentration of dragon blight on
Caen. There, the priesthood receives a special communion—a
solution containing drops of Toruk’s own blood—which
causes their flesh to fester and distort. Priests consider this
affliction a blessing and savor the revulsion their horrific state
evokes in those brought before them. The aura of their blight
is strong enough to kill mortals brought in close proximity for
extended exposure. All living priests consider their exalted
waning a necessary step before the immortal undeath the
worthy receive as a reward for faithful service. Shortly before
death they are taught Tkra, the sacred language of Lord Toruk
and a tongue almost unknown except among the dragons.
Most priests dwell within the Cryxian empire, but some have
ventured to the mainland to establish small, covert cults
to spread the word of the Dragonfather. They periodically
return for their sacred communion or have the blessed liquid
smuggled to them. Lich Lord Divinitus considers the few
cults of Toruk in the Iron Kingdoms an experiment: they
might help prepare the way for the acceptance of Toruk’s
inevitable victory over all life, but even if not, they provide a
convenient source of cadavers and information.
The Lich Lords of Cryx
The lich lords are powerful immortal undead generals who
weave cunning strategies that span centuries, of a scope
inconceivable to mortal minds. These liches were created to
do the bidding of Lord Toruk, the Dragonfather, though they
are often preoccupied with their own agendas. So long as the
empire and its armies answer to his will, the Dragonfather
affords them considerable latitude. Toruk personally selected
each of these lich lords to command his armies and govern
aspects of his empire, but he shows no interest in scrutinizing
their deeds. Some have held dominion for centuries, others
for more than a millennium, though the significant turmoil of
the last several years led to the loss of two and the replacement
of one. At present only eleven of the twelve seats are filled.
The origins of the first lich lords can be traced back to the
ancient pirate kings, fourteen in number, who ruled the old
Scharde Islands before Toruk’s arrival, squabbling over their
island domains. These proud kings initially refused Toruk
when he demanded their obedience, and so the Dragonfather
orchestrated a demonstration of his power. Toruk chose the
notorious pirate Captain Rengrave of the Atramentous as his
emissary. Toruk’s fiery breath transformed Rengrave and
his crew into revenants, indestructible specters that dwelled
aboard the blackened ship they crewed in life. Toruk sent
Captain Rengrave against the pirate kings of the Scharde
Islands, whose gathered warriors he slaughtered to show the
consequences of defying the dragon.
Two of the original fourteen kings remained defiant: King
Threnodax, whom Captain Rengrave had served as a vassal
in life, and King Moorcraig, who fled to his castle thinking he
could defend himself from the Dragonfather. Both were soon
annihilated and their souls subjected to endless torment,
while the twelve who bowed to Toruk and surrendered had
their mortal forms shattered and remade by the Dragonfather.
They were rewarded with immortality as liches, bound to
serve as the overlords of Toruk’s new empire.
The domains of the lich lords have evolved over time.
Even as Toruk spread his blight across the islands, his new
generals and acolytes set about transforming this scattered
land of fourteen petty fiefdoms into a single kingdom sworn
to their dragon god. The last sixteen centuries have taken
their toll upon the lich lords; fewer than half the original
twelve remain. Some have fallen to outside forces, while
others have succumbed to scheming subordinates, their
mantles taken up by those who engineered their downfall.
Such calculated betrayal is routine in Cryx, where only those
brilliant and strong enough to retain their positions survive.
Toruk’s commandments, however, forbid the lich lords from
openly warring with one another as the pirate kings once
did, as direct strife would interfere with the great work of
finding and delivering up his progeny.
Within the last thirty years, the Dragonfather’s schemes
reached a critical point, and Cryxian forces began to swarm
the mainland in unprecedented concentrations. These armies,
called incursions, were once the responsibility of Lich Lords
Daeamortus and Terminus, who orchestrated their efforts
from a distance, remaining with the fleets. What mainlanders
refer to as the “Scharde Invasions” of 584–588 AR was planned
by these two lich lords as a series of attacks on enemy shores
to disguise the movement of incursions into the interior.
Both Terminus and Daeamortus relied heavily upon powerful
vassals such as subordinate iron liches to direct the clandestine
movement of troops. The eldest and most successful of
these was Asphyxious. This powerful figure was effectively
considered by many in Cryx a thirteenth lich lord. After his
triumph over Daeamortus, Asphyxious replaced his old
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 master and became the equal of Lich Lord Terminus. Both
are now permanently positioned together with their incursion
forces to advance Cryxian interests. Venethrax, the lich lord
charged with acquiring draconic lore and the undisputed
authority on Toruk’s children and draconic blight, has also
taken a more active role directing mainland operations
related to finding and securing other dragons for Toruk. His
investigations would ultimately lead to Toruk’s clash with his
progeny over the Wyrmwall Mountains. These three lich lords
are presently the commanding generals of the Dragon Lord’s
armies conducting operations against the continent.
A fourth military leader, Lich Lord Scopulous, commands the
Cryxian army kept in reserve. He supports the incursions on
the mainland with his sizable stockpile of thralls, weapons,
and necrotite. Scopulous also controls the Nightmare
Empire’s garrisons and fortresses and ensures their readiness
against counterattack, such as when the Cygnarans retaliated
in the aftermath of the Scharde Invasions. He coordinates
his efforts with those of Terminus’ fleets to guarantee that
a steady stream of reinforcements reaches the mainland.
Asphyxious’ measures to construct mainland production
facilities have mitigated the urgency of this resupply.
It has been four centuries since the armies of Cryx last
marched to war at full strength. They mustered against the
Orgoth in the invaders’ final bastion of Drer Drakkerung
on Garlghast Island. At the height of the conflict, Orgoth
warwitches obliterated the city. The conflagration destroyed
three of the lich lords and reduced two others, Tenebrous
and Fulmenus, to spectral shadows. Though their physical
potency was diminished, their new state heightened their
ability to perceive and manipulate necromantic powers, and
they now serve as the Dragonfather’s reigning experts on
occult lore and esoteric experiments.
As Orgoth secrets became part of Cryxian occult knowledge,
Toruk elevated new lich lords to replace the fallen: Terminus,
Thalassina, and Angorus. Thalassina was tasked with
steering matters regarding the human kingdoms and
other potential rival powers, to complement Malathrax’s
intelligence gathering. Few mortals could fathom the full
extent of their sway when these lich lords work in tandem;
their prescient and subtle scheming has made them two of
the most influential beings in western Immoren. Toruk’s
draconic mind has difficulty distinguishing the petty lives
of mortal rulers, given that they die and are replaced so
frequently, and he therefore relies heavily upon Malathrax,
Thalassina, and the agents who report to them.
Of the lich lords residing in Skell, Angorus and Divinitus
oversee the treasury and Toruk’s cult, respectively, and
rarely leave that city. Angorus’ agents collect tithes taken
from the pirate fleet and the mortal inhabitants of Cryx, and
he oversees the tabulation of other significant resources,
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such as accumulated necrotite. Divinitus spends more time
in Toruk’s presence than perhaps any other lord, directing
the Dragonfather’s enigmatic priesthood.
Lich Lord Corripio controls the Archive of Skell, a library of
inestimable worth that includes a treasure trove of stolen and
accumulated lore, including many tomes thought lost forever by
those on the mainland. What the archive contains on the Orgoth
in particular is beyond compare. It also preserves voluminous
documents transcribing discoveries and insights arising from
the work of other lich lords, such as Fulmenus, Tenebrous,
and Venethrax. Corripio’s peers must stay in his good graces if
they desire access to this information. Lich Lord Malathrax has
been notably reticent to contribute to the archives, hoarding his
gathered intelligence and doling it out frugally.
Until recently Cryxian military production was overseen by one
of the original lich lords, Morbus. He went to the mainland in
608 AR to take control of the vast necrofactoriums established
by Asphyxious and to ensure that Venethrax received what
he needed for vital missions to come. However, Morbus
was destroyed by the Cygnaran Army in an ambush under
what many lich lords considered questionable circumstances;
Terminus suspected Asphyxious’ involvement but failed to
prove he took part in any conspiracy.
There have been twelve lich lords since the founding of Cryx,
and all in the upper echelons await Toruk’s announcement
of a replacement, though no one knows whom he will select
for the twelfth seat. As yet no great undead lord has been
singled out by the Dragonfather for elevation to the position.
In the meantime, Asphyxious has assumed responsibility
for Morbus’ domain, though some of the necrofactoriums in
Skell have been co-opted by Lich Lord Scopulous to better
consolidate the strength of his reserve army.
Hierarchy of the Dead
The hierarchy of Cryx is a simple pyramid with Lord Toruk
at its apex. Below Toruk are the lich lords, each a relative
monarch with near-absolute authority over his or her
respective domain. Mighty as they are, all are terrified of the
Dragonfather. Serving the lich lords in vital capacities are
powerful field commanders and overseers, as varied as they
are resourceful: iron liches, necromancers, elder wraiths, and
other, stranger vassals. The individuals at this level enjoy
tremendous latitude, and many put into motion complicated
schemes to advance their own ambitions. The most effective
and ruthless of undead have sometimes risen to become lich
lords themselves, a common aspiration for many of Cryx’s
subordinate leaders. Lich lords are ever watchful of their
underlings, knowing inattention can all too quickly lead to
their own displacement. All leadership in Cryx is rooted in
the skillful application of intimidation, violence, and fear.
Warcasters of Cryx, both living and undead, invariably
achieve special prominence by virtue of their invaluable
talents as battlefield leaders. They transcend the ordinary
limits of station to command larger forces commensurate
to their strength and cunning. Their stature can sometimes
make them willful and unpredictable; however, their
superiors rarely seek to quash this spark entirely, for it is also
vital to their battlefield success.
The other most influential vassals are those warlords who have
risen through the ranks by their wits, prowess, and personal
power. Some, like the trollkin warlord Gerlak Slaughterborn,
the human necromancer Darragh Wrathe, or the Satyxis
pirates Skarre Ravenmane and Axiara Wraithblade, are
living champions who have proven themselves in countless
conflicts. Others, like Bane Lord Tartarus and Captain
Rengrave of the Atramentous, are particularly powerful souls
bound into eternal service who use their unique abilities to
command specific undead forces.
Although the vast majority of Cryxian forces consists of
thralls and necromechanikal horrors, the nation also fields a
host of fearsome living soldiers. Only two groups of mortals
are accorded any real respect by their undead masters: the
Satyxis and the warwitches.
The Satyxis were blighted a millennium ago by the blood of
the dragon Shazkz, which rained down on their island while
Lord Toruk consumed its athanc. The people of Satyx were
already immersed in a culture of sacrifice and blood ritual
when the blight fell upon them. The men withered away
but the women were transformed, their minds embracing
an even greater cruelty. When the Dragonfather appeared
to the survivors, their queen immediately prostrated herself
before their new god. The Satyxis have since served Toruk as
consummate reaver witches and raiders.
The Orgoth annihilated themselves when Toruk’s armies
marched upon the city of Drer Drakkerung, but not as
completely as they had hoped: a handful of warwitches
survived and were captured. Given the choice of cooperating
or having their secrets ripped from their bones, the survivors
shared their occult tradition with Cryx. Within a few
centuries what little remained of Orgoth culture had been
subsumed by Cryx, and this new warwitch tradition has
produced some of the most powerful mortals ever to serve
the Nightmare Empire.
Necro-Industry
Early in the empire’s history it was left to the lich lords to
derive occult methods from Toruk’s example, making use
of the animated dead drawn from the withered mortal
communities scattered around the islands. Before long they
managed to create a great horde of thrall slaves and a smaller
number of more cunning lieutenants. These simple undead
built the great city of Skell and the black palace where Toruk
chose to dwell and receive worship.
In short order the lich lords extended their awareness to the
mainland. Planting agents among humanity, they watched as
the Thousand Cities feuded, noting every innovation in the
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 arts of murder and warfare. Rather than reverse engineer
the inventions of mortal genius, Cryxian agents pillaged
the graves of humanity’s greatest thinkers and stripped the
secrets from their bones through forensic necromancy. These
necromancers excelled at uncovering lore and applying the
research to their own nightmarish creations.
The arrival of the Orgoth on their terrifying blackships—
among the very few mortal affairs ever to capture Toruk’s
interest—forestalled the long-planned Cryxian invasion of
the mainland. The Orgoth possessed a unique necromantic
tradition as well as a vast wealth of powerful relics
and unfamiliar lore, and they went about subduing the
mainland population with inhuman savagery. Although
Toruk himself laid waste to their fleets when they foolishly
approached Cryx’s main island, the Dragonfather allowed
them to claim the island of Garlghast, where his agents
could easily observe them.
The Orgoth crushed the people of western Immoren beneath
their tyranny over the next several centuries, but eventually
the oppressed rose up against them. A turning point came
when the goddess Thamar granted humanity the gift of
magic. Soon the Immorese merged their newfound arcane
skills with technology to create the first mechanikal devices.
The Cryxians were immediately fascinated by these machines
and envisioned necromantic equivalents. They plundered
the bones of countless arcanists and set about incorporating
mechanikal knowledge into their own morbid industries,
crafting a new and unique necrotechnological tradition. They
readily mastered techniques to augment their thralls with
crude steam engines, and a new era was born.
Cryx took note of every weapon the Immorese and the
Orgoth employed in their struggles for dominance. When
the Iron Alliance constructed the first colossals during the
Rebellion, Cryx wasted no time in stealing the secrets of the
cerebral matrix, the massive arcane device that served as the
cortex of the titanic constructs.
The Incursion Armies
Over the last twenty years, Cryxian incursion forces have
successfully penetrated the mainland and established
secret bases in a number of remote wilderness locations,
most significantly Cygnar’s Wyrmwall Mountains and
Khador’s Thornwood Forest, though operations in the
latter have ceased in recent years. Underground tunnels,
whether naturally occurring or painstakingly excavated,
are the favored sites. With these bases, Cryx has begun to
establish the infrastructure for unlimited necromechanikal
fabrication—an essential part of their insidious campaigns.
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Cryx has located most such facilities near places of slaughter,
where necrotite can be mined to fuel their war industry.
Hidden mining rigs often accompany the necrofactoriums.
Most materials for crafting thralls are stolen from forgotten
graves and fresh battlefields. Cryxians use the ancient dead
to produce banes or skarlocks, while fresher corpses are
reanimated as bile thralls or mechanithralls.
Few major engagements between the Iron Kingdoms go
unnoticed by Cryxian agents. They descend upon battlefields
like carrion birds, stripping the carnage of corpses,
mechanika, and any other potentially useful salvage.
Cryx’s spy network includes contacts in the governments
of all the mainland nations. Many informants do not truly
grasp the implications of their dealings, willfully ignorant
of their patrons’ aims and focused only on the wealth they
earn by furnishing seemingly trivial information. In the
aggregate, this data allows Cryx to follow troop movements
and subtly push for battles to occur in places convenient
to the Nightmare Empire. Other undead minions scour the
continent for lost artifacts and lore—or Toruk’s hated spawn.
In some cases these subordinates remain unsupervised for
years, to be collected later when they uncover some obscure
object or useful intelligence. All these assets work to extend
Cryx’s hold on the mainland.
Several necrofactoriums within the Wyrmwall now comprise
the production center for the mainland war effort, with minor
operations scattered in isolated places such as the Vescheneg
Headlands and Vilkhan Bluffs of Khador. Previously the
largest portion of Cryxian industry on the mainland was
situated beneath Thornwood Forest, but the unlikely alliance
between the nations of Khador and Cygnar forced Cryx to
relocate most of these facilities elsewhere. The recovery of
resources lost at the Thornwood facility was swift by Cryxian
standards, and remaining necrofactoriums continue to
bolster the Nightmare Empire’s strength.
While Asphyxious controls this network of facilities, Master
Necrotech Mortenebra oversees certain operational details.
Her flawless machine logic has already exponentially increased
production in these necrofactoriums, which are equal parts
factory and surgical theater. Vast numbers of specially crafted
thralls and necrotechs endlessly assemble new thralls and
helljacks as the roar of unwholesome machinery eclipses the
screams of living victims. Mortals dragged into this abyss for
vivisection spend their last moments breathing a nauseating
miasma of smoke, poison, and vaporized blood, all the while lit
by the green flames of necrotite-powered forges. In shockingly
few years, Cryx has insinuated a horrific new tendril of their
empire into the heart of western Immoren. While the mortal
nations squabble over their borders, Cryx quietly spreads like
a cancer just beneath the surface.
Cryxian Fleets secrets ripped from the Orgoth, these ships easily rival the
most powerful vessels of the mortal navies; only modern
The fleets of the Cryxian navy have served as the face of the
ironhulls can stand against them one on one.
Nightmare Empire since it was founded. With an extensive
but disparate armada arising from several distinct Scharde Blackships are constructed in Dreggsmouth under the
Island pirate forces, Cryx controls one of the premier naval supervision of Master Shipwright Kress Soratt, who answers
powers of western Immoren. to Lord Captain Derevnia Vrace, master of Dreggsmouth
and former vassal of Lich Lord Morbus. The lord captain
For centuries, Lich Lord Terminus has had oversight of the
presently serves Lich Lord Terminus, who laid the foundation
Cryxian fleets. Since taking charge of an incursion army,
for the original fleet. Skarre leads this fleet directly, alongside
however, he has entrusted operational command to Skarre
the notable captains of the other flagships that form her
Ravenmane, recognizing her leadership, her skill as a
immediate escort. Satyxis make up a larger proportion of
warcaster, and her unwavering loyalty to the Dragonfather.
blackship crews, officers, and captains than they do in the
She unleashed the full fury of Cryx’s naval power upon
other fleets. In addition to being among the most formidable
the western seaboard, battering its ports with a punishing
warships ever created, blackships have the capacity to carry
frequency not seen since the Scharde Invasions during
large numbers of soldiers, helljacks, and other supplies
Vinter Raelthorne’s rule. These attacks have ranged north
to support invasion forces. The Black Fleet has rarely
to Khador’s farthest frozen ports and intruded across the
been released in full force, and mainland admirals often
heavily patrolled Gulf of Cygnar down to the shores of the
underestimate its size. They view Cryx’s nautical strength
Protectorate of Menoth. The fleets include vessels capable of
through the skewed lens of encounters with the chaotic and
penetrating the major river arteries of Immoren in support of
less formidable mortal pirate fleet.
the incursion armies.
The Ghost Fleet, the smallest of the Cryxian fleets, is not quite
The dark iron heart of the Cryxian navy is the dreaded Black
as fast or deadly as the blackships, but its frigates and its
Fleet. The mere sight of one of the blackships is regarded as a
few larger ships have their own advantages: they are pushed
sign of imminent and certain doom. The Cryxians bring their
by phantom winds, regenerate from damage sustained
own weather, with eerie winds to fill their sails and chilling
with unnatural alacrity, and are crewed by seemingly
fogs to conceal their approach. Derived from closely guarded
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 powerful mortal fleets retreat at the first sight of one of
these ghastly vessels looming ahead, green flames flickering
along its decks, rigging, and crew. The Ghost Fleet’s crews fear
and respect Captain Rengrave, who changed many of them
into revenants and built up the spectral flotilla. Rengrave has
the distinction of being Toruk’s first vassal and Cryx’s first
citizen, and his flagship Atramentous is the most ancient ship
sailing the Meredius—an enormous blackened galleon that
was once a Tordoran dirgenmast funeral vessel. To be boarded
by her revenants is to face eternal torment, and many sailors
choose to end their lives rather than endure that terrible fate.
Though Rengrave is the first and most formidable entity in
this fleet, each ship obeys its own captain, and coordinated
efforts between them are infrequent.
Cryx’s mortal pirate fleet is the largest but least ordered of its
armadas, a diverse group mostly made up of sailing vessels
liberated from other nations. Indeed, this fleet operates more
as a loose collective of flotillas than as a single cohesive
group. These vessels include the largest number of living
crewmen, primarily human Scharde Islanders, but they also
employ trollkin, ogrun, and Satyxis. The largest population
of Satyxis is concentrated on the elite vessels called Axiara’s
Raiders, led by Axiara Wraithblade, who has been delegated
oversight of the entire pirate fleet. Axiara has the direct ear
of Skarre Ravenmane, and the other commanders obey her
accordingly, if not always swiftly or predictably.
In addition to mounting chaotic attacks on mainland
shipping for plunder, the pirate fleet has long been involved
in the smuggling trade—the only true commerce between
Cryx and the mainland. Their ability to find even marginal
welcome at smugglers’ ports and seedy pirate dens has made
them a valued asset for Cryxian intelligence. Though used
primarily for support and diversion, this fleet stands ready
to answer the call to action.
Because its numerous vessels are crewed by willful,
bloodthirsty scoundrels of volatile temperament, the pirate
fleet has historically proven difficult to control and coordinate.
Recent efforts by Axiara, on Skarre’s orders, have helped to
bring these captains more in line and ensure their obedience.
Satyxis blood witches have learned that they may do as
they please—until Axiara or Skarre calls upon them. Cryx
otherwise deploys these ships to distract naval forces while
the Black Fleet or Ghost Fleet engages higher-priority targets.
Though the various Cryxian fleets are made up of disparate
and sometimes mutually hostile crews, they come together
for raids against key targets. The terrifying entities that crew
these vessels are accompanied by amphibious helljacks such
as the Leviathan and Harrower. Dropped into the water before
the ships land, these fearsome machines rise from the depths
to terrorize coastal defenders. Raiding tactics usually involve
routing panicked enemies through sheer press of numbers.
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Masters & Servants
The upper echelons of the Cryxian hierarchy are populated
primarily by powerful undead necromancers skilled in the
use of necromechanika, most prominently the ancient iron
liches, dozens of which serve the individual lich lords. Under
their command are all manner of horrors, both living and
undead, for the soldiers of the Nightmare Empire of Cryx
come in many forms. Some are brought into the fold after their
death or are captured and bound to a life of servitude. Others
are lured by the promise of power and wealth as merciless
pirates. The service of these lesser beings is often short and
violent. After the end of their mortal lives, their remains are
recycled as the crude material of necromechanikal constructs.
Necrotechs
Using a combination of necromancy and mechanikal
ingenuity, the necrotechs of Cryx are responsible for creating
and maintaining the undead forces that serve the Nightmare
Empire. These mad savants shape creations that fit their
twisted visions of perfection, and they replace their own
flesh with an array of customized mechanikal limbs.
Necrotechs are at the heart of much of Cryx’s industry,
overseeing the operation of the Dragonfather’s many
necrofactoriums both on the Scharde Islands and on the
mainland. Their efforts supply the lich lords with an endless
stream of war materials. They scour the battlefields for
choice specimens to use in their experiments, and from the
dead craft a wide array of reanimated horrors with which
to fight the living. Given enough time and access to proper
tools, necrotechs can produce helljacks and other machines
of war from necrotite, steel, bone, and flesh.
Thralls
Thralls are corpses reanimated through the power of complex
runes carved into their flesh. Forming the backbone of the
armies of Cryx, these risen dead are the most numerous of
all Lord Toruk’s soldiers. The corpses used in the creation of
thralls are obtained through a variety of means, most often
scavenged from the battlefield or purchased through Cryx’s
slave trade. Thralls vary in both intelligence and strength
depending on the quality of the corpse and the power of the
runes carved into their flesh.
The simplest of these undead creations are mindless rabble
intent on rushing across the battlefield to tear opponents
limb from limb without regard for their own survival. Many
of these troops are augmented by necrotechs to make use of
mechanical components such as massive, steam-powered
fists or sludge cannons. Other more advanced thralls possess
a cold and cunning intelligence, allowing them to act in their
master’s stead and even develop their own personalities.
Regardless of intelligence, though, all thralls are utterly
beholden to their master and devoid of true free will.
Revenants, Wraiths & Banes
Not all the undead soldiers serving the Nightmare Empire
are mindless or completely enslaved to the wishes of others.
A number of these beings arise from souls bound to Caen
by dark rituals and transformed into entities filled with an
intrinsic animosity for the living. All of these undead retain
intelligence and will, but their psyches are often shattered,
retaining only glimmers of past memories now filtered
through their new unnatural state of mind. These accursed
warriors have no choice but to submit to the Dragonfather
and his lich lords.
Revenants and specters of various types play significant roles
in different areas of the Cryxian forces. Bound to specific
ships to become their eternal crews, revenants make up the
majority of the Ghost Fleet. A number of wraiths also haunt
Cryx, some fused with necrotech and put to specialized
uses, or driven to kill by the violence of their own deaths.
Lastly there are the formidable banes, whose fabrication
resembles that employed with thralls but requires the careful
preparation of especially potent corpses: the remnants of
ancient warriors are used to house maddened spirits torn
from an otherworldly void between Caen and Urcaen. These
enigmatic warriors often serve as heavy infantry or cavalry.
Satyxis
The Satyxis were once an isolated warrior race living on the
lonely, fog-shrouded isle of Satyx. It wasn’t until the dragon
Shazkz clashed with Toruk in the skies above their island
that the Satyxis were transformed into their current blight-
twisted forms. The women survived, but all the males of
their tribes became monstrous creatures and perished, even
the children.
The Satyxis have found a valued place in the Cryxian
navy, both serving as leaders of the lesser pirate fleet and
making up a large portion of the crews in the infamous Black
Fleet. Many are versed in blood magic and are formidable
combatants by nature. Whether wielding modern firearms
or their bladed lacerator whips, Satyxis warriors outmatch
most opponents in speed, precision, and ferocity. Their cold
disposition is well known among any who sail the Meredius,
as is their complete disregard for the lives of others.
Scharde Pirates & Black
Ogrun
Whereas the pirates of the northern seas may demand
their targets surrender or negotiate terms such as the
relinquishment of cargo, the pirates of the Scharde Islands
know no such niceties. Scharde fleets fire upon ships without
warning, and once the pirates board, they either slaughter the
entire crew or force them into chains. These boarding parties
are merciless, swinging their crude axes and machetes like
madmen amid deranged howls and war cries.
Those taken aboard Scharde slave ships are destined for
a fate worse than death: either they will suffer as galley
slaves or, after being sold in Blackwater’s markets, they will
be put to slave labor or dissected by the necrosurgeons of
the Nightmare Empire. The Scharde pirates have no sense of
morality to which captives can appeal, and any who make
trouble are summarily executed, as their abductors know the
corpse still holds value.
The crews of Cryxian pirate vessels are diverse, and black
ogrun are sometimes employed as boarding crew. Valued for
their formidable size and ruthlessness in combat, these ogrun
tend to serve the more powerful pirate captains, particularly
those engaged in the slave trade. Upon boarding a targeted
vessel, black ogrun unleash their rage and bloodlust upon
any within reach, killing those unfit for heavy labor and
dragging the rest off for a lifetime of servitude in Cryx’s
foundries.
Blighted Trollkin
After the fall of the Molgur, many trollkin kriels settled in
the Scharde Islands, especially Blackrock. Close enough
to be affected by Toruk’s potent blight, these trollkin have
had their flesh and minds twisted irrevocably, becoming
quite different from their distant mainland cousins. They
developed an insatiable taste for flesh and eagerly participate
in the Nightmare Empire’s conflicts. The island kriels feud
among themselves but have been forcibly united under
the leadership of General Gerlak Slaughterborn. Following
Slaughterborn’s commands, the blighted trollkin of Cryx have
participated in some of the bloodiest missions imaginable,
often undertaking assignments with minimal chance for
survival. On the battlefield, these trollkin massacre any in
their path, pausing only to feast on the dead.
The Cephalyx
Lich Lord Thalassina is credited with urging Asphyxious to
reach out to the enigmatic cephalyx, believing they could
forge a mutually beneficial pact. That Asphyxious managed
to strike a deal with this little-known race is significant, as
the cephalyx had never before deigned to communicate with
other species and appear emotionless even when compared
to the undead.
Asphyxious bargained for their services in mortal lives;
thus, cephalyx accompanying Cryxian forces into battle
often claim a portion of enemy survivors and surgically
alter them to create warrior drudges and massive hulking
monstrosities. The Cryxians and the cephalyx have crafted
shared facilities for their use amid the tunnels beneath
Immoren. Caves excavated by the cephalyx connect ancient
burial sites to sunken portions of the lost empire of Morrdh,
and this network provides a covert means by which Cryxian
forces move about the mainland undetected.
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INFERNAL MACHINES
The true might of the Nightmare Empire lies in its endless tide of undead thralls and the power of its
helljacks. Cryxian forces overwhelm their opponents and bury the living in a swarm of reanimated soldiers.
It is in the midst of these shambling masses that Cryx delivers its formidable helljacks, shielded by a wall
of flesh and repurposed steel. Such tactics are most effective at eliminating durable targets concealed deep
within the enemy’s ranks while burying lesser armies under the weight of numbers.

ARMY COMPOSITION
An army made using this theme force can include only the following Cryx models:

• Cryx warcasters • Warwitch models/units

• Non-character warjacks • Necrotech solos
• Deathjack • Wraith solos
• Malice • Solos with the Battlegroup
• Iron Lich models/units Controller ability

• Thrall models/units • Darragh Wrathe

SPECIAL RULES

• For every full 20 points of Thrall models/units in this army, you can add one command
attachment, non-character solo, or Necrosurgeon & Stitch Thralls unit to the army free of cost.
Free models/units do not count toward the total point value of Thrall models/units in the army
when calculating this bonus.
• Warjacks in the army gain Hyper-Aggressive. (When a model with Hyper-Aggressive suffers
damage from an enemy attack at any time except while it is advancing, after the attack is
resolved it can immediately make a full advance directly toward the attacking model.)
• One Mechanithrall unit in this army gains Ambush. (You can choose not to deploy a unit with
Ambush at the start of the game. If it is not deployed normally, you can put it into play at the
end of any of your Control Phases after your first turn. When you do, choose any table edge
except the back of your opponent’s deployment zone. Place the unit with Ambush completely
within 3˝ of the chosen table edge.)

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 WARCASTERS
OF CRYX
The warcasters of Cryx are the Nightmare Empire’s most
potent military assets, valued not only for their ability to
master vicious Cryxian warjacks but also for their vast and
dark occult powers. Among Cryx’s warcasters are some of
the mightiest arcanists in all of western Immoren, several of
whom bring over a thousand years of battlefield experience,
twisted scheming, and cunning adaptability to their service
for the Dragonfather.
Necromantic Mastery
The dark islands of Cryx are home to numerous profane and
shadowy arcane arts. The Nightmare Empire has assimilated
the blasphemous knowledge of the Orgoth conquerors,
embraced the blood magic of the Satyxis, and perfected the
art of necromancy, giving the Dragonfather’s warcasters
diverse magical traditions upon which they can draw.
The origins of necromancy as an occult art run deep, rooted
in the primal power found in the divide between life and
death. It is considered the oldest of arcane practices, the
only systematic magical art that predates the Gift of Magic
on Immoren. The Lords of Morrdh were practicing simple
but effective necromancy even in ancient times. They had
learned that corpses contained echoes of behaviors and
patterns left over from life and that these echoes could be
strengthened and rewritten by the application of runic glyphs
to create powerful and versatile undead servants, including
those capable of limited reasoning while remaining bound
to their makers. Countless divergent necromantic practices
and traditions evolved over the centuries, each with its own
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secrets and profane lore. In Cryx, all of these rites and stores
of knowledge are deemed worthy of study. The Archives of
Skell and the libraries of the lich lords surpass any similar
repositories on the mainland.
Only a handful of beings can claim any sort of comprehensive
mastery of this lore—among them Lich Lords Tenebrous,
Fulmenus, Corripio, and Asphyxious. Most Cryxian
necromancers utilize only a small portion of this knowledge.
They focus on pragmatic rites to animate dead bodies and to
seize and capture souls, and they favor spells that can invoke
destructive or debilitating effects on the battlefield.
Toruk transcends all other entities in the scope and breadth
of his necromantic power. Necromancy may be intrinsic to
Toruk’s being, tied to the endless blighted energy pouring
from his athanc. Even as blight harms and transforms living
tissue, necromancy brings animation and a semblance of life
and strength even to the dead following similar principles.
The Dragonfather seems to know no limits in his use of
necromantic power, and it is in this arena that his claims to
godhood are most clearly vindicated. Simply by breathing
balefire over the sailors of the Atramentous, he gifted undeath
unto the Ghost Fleet, a mighty flotilla crewed by immortal
and nearly invincible revenants.
Among Toruk’s first creations were the hellwrought iron
and bone bodies of the first lich lords, who now serve him
as administrators of the Nightmare Empire. Each of these
beings has inherited formidable necromantic capabilities. Yet,
though Toruk awakened the lich lords’ magical potential, the
Dragonfather’s powers remain his own and are not shared
by these lesser minions, who must find other ways to shape
necromantic energies. For this reason the liches of Cryx
have spent many lifetimes gathering every scrap of occult
lore they can find, accumulated through their own research,
experimentation, or outright theft.
The Orgoth served as a significant resource to the Cryxian
arcane arts, though the lich lords vastly improved and
expanded upon what the conquerors knew. The most vital lore
taken from them involved the capture, transfer, and harnessing
of souls after death. The soul cages employed by many
beings in Cryx were derived after plundering and replicating
countless Orgoth artifacts, and they are now commonly used to
augment and empower the spells available to a necromancer.
Each soul contains considerable residual energy, and tapping
into this source allows Cryxian necromancers to exceed their
natural limits, at the modest cost of tormenting the souls so
employed. Similar Orgoth principles lie behind a great deal of
Cryx’s necromechanika, though the lich lords and necrotechs
have taken them far beyond their origins.
The Orgoth also pioneered the warwitch tradition, which the
masters of Cryx inherited and have since adapted for their own
use. Mighty natural-born sorcerers, warwitches were enslaved
and bound to serve Orgoth generals as versatile assassins.
While warwitches practice necromancy, their diverse arcane
arts encompass both puissant offensive battlefield magic and
subtler spells allowing them to peer into and control the minds
of others. This art is best refined through living practitioners,
as it relies to some degree on emotions and bodily systems
inherent to mortal flesh, though experienced warwitches
retain their magical abilities into undeath.
Another occult tradition practiced exclusively in Cryx is the
blood magic of the Satyxis, though mainland groups such
as the Tharn work similar sorcery. The Satyxis have long
been versed in the power connected to blood as the essence
of living vitality. This cruel people knows of a wide variety
of bloodletting and sacrificial rites, practiced skillfully by
both younger sea witches and the elder blood hags. Some
among these practitioners can harness sacrificial blood to
perform auguries, perceiving the strands of fate reflecting
the decisions of those around them. Such primal blood magic
is deemed by the other arcane practitioners of Cryx to be
an art related but inferior to necromancy. The Satyxis insist
their traditions hold true power not manifested in other
arcane arts. Certainly warcasters like Skarre Ravenmane bear
out this assertion, as she is among the most formidable of
Cryxian warcasters.
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Harnessing the Gift
Toruk can directly imbue his mightiest undead minions with
the ability to wield magic after they transition to undeath—
every lich lord and iron lich has this capacity. This greatly
contrasts with the unpredictable manner in which arcane talent
is manifested in other nations, where it is found only in those
born with the potential. However, the process of becoming a
lich requires souls of unusual potency for the transformation
to succeed; only the most willful, ambitious, and intelligent
of individuals are selected. Even great necromancers like
Darragh Wrathe are not guaranteed immediate welcome in
their company.
Even in an empire ruled by the walking dead, there is merit
to allowing the gifted to develop their powers in life. Cryx
does not rely solely on its liches and commits itself to finding
and seizing exceptional individuals such as warcasters
wherever possible, turning them into weapons for Toruk’s
arsenal. A number of Cryxian warcasters are sorcerers in the
same vein as their mainland counterparts, possessing innate
arcane talents from birth. Over the centuries the empire has
developed its own methods for finding them. Cryxian seers
perform regular occult rituals to foresee when the warcaster
gift will manifest among both the island populations
and coastal communities. They keep a hungry eye out for
opportunities to snatch gifted youths from the mainland.
The lich lords greedily work to secure these living assets
for their own exclusive use, hoping to deny their political
enemies these same potent resources as they each build their
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own base of powerful servants. Rivalries run deep among
the lich lords, and infighting is not uncommon when a
particularly powerful talent comes to light.
The gifted are trained in whichever manner best suits
their aptitudes or the whims of their new masters. Some
warcasters are initiated into warwitch covens to learn Orgoth
secrets as well as Cryxian necromantic principles. These
depraved teachings inevitably fracture the minds of the
witches in precisely the ways their superiors desire. Other
living warcasters may have been trained in the traditions of
whichever culture spawned them and master Cryxian magic
over time.
Because the living learn more quickly than the dead, Cryx
knows the value of keeping those with arcane power alive as
long as possible before granting them the blessing of undeath.
Living warcasters nonetheless remain a minority in Cryx, since
the lich lords seldom hesitate to sacrifice such individuals
as required to further their plans, fully aware that useful
servants can be readily restored to a semblance of life. Special
care and rituals are necessary when reanimating the gifted to
preserve their talents past death. An incautious necrosurgeon
might transform the corpse of a powerful arcanist into a mere
mechanithrall, spoiling its potential for greater service.
The lich lords have plumbed the fundamental nature of the
warcaster talent to a depth far exceeding the research efforts of
their enemies, and they have developed ancillary methods to
emulate such abilities through necromantic technology. They
are assisted in this endeavor both by the endless diligence of
their necrotechs and by a complete freedom from morality that
allows them to conduct all manner of ghastly experimentation.
The cortexes and arc nodes of bonejacks and helljacks have
been designed to answer the mental commands of the undead
as they would living warcasters. There is no inherent difference
between the means used by a natural-born warcaster and a
lich lord for controlling warjacks on the battlefield. Therefore,
Cryx has access to far more individuals with the equivalent of
warcaster talent than would otherwise be possible.
Battlefield Role
As important as warcasters are to other armies of the Iron
Kingdoms, such individuals prove doubly vital to Cryx, given
that the majority of its hordes of unliving and unthinking
thralls require powerful leaders to direct them. Accordingly,
Cryxian warcasters must have even greater mastery over
their armies than their counterparts in the Iron Kingdoms.
Lich lords orchestrate the actions of entire armies, not just
warjacks, wielding the multifarious thralls as extensions of
their indomitable will.
Living soldiers and sentient undead are expected to follow a
warcaster’s commands without question, but in practice such
beings can behave willfully. Whether due to the soldiers’ lack
of discipline, their instinct for self-preservation, or simple
bloodlust, warcasters must constantly adapt when their
warriors fail to adhere to their careful plans. Cryxian warcasters
CRYXIAN
use different methods to quash insubordination, though most
GLYPHS OF AUTHORITY
maintain control of their mortal forces through terror and the
very real threat of violence. Refusal to follow orders is met The runes engraved in the flesh of thralls can be of two
varieties: those used in the actual necromantic animation
with painful death and, in many cases, the imprisonment of a
process and those created for purposes of identification. The
mutinous warrior’s immortal soul for further torments.
lords of Cryx often mark their thralls, bonejacks, helljacks,
Cryxian warcasters support these soldiers through potent ships, and correspondence with such glyphs. This branding
magic. A warcaster’s retinue of spells can cripple the enemy enables their subordinates, who might otherwise have
with debilitating waves of pain or savagely destroy an difficulty telling one thrall from another, to identify legions
enemy formation with a torrent of caustic energy. Under the belonging to different masters.
enervating spells of the warcaster, the enemy is reduced to a
pack of mewling weaklings unable to defend against the next
group of thralls to wash over them. With the proliferation
of arc nodes among Cryxian battlegroups, a single warcaster
can dominate whole battlefields by sending one debilitating
spell after another arcing across an entire enemy front. VENETHRAX SKARRE
RAVENMANE
While given broad latitude to complete their objectives, all
Cryxian warcasters ultimately answer to a lich lord master. If
opportunities arise in battle for warcasters to secure a resource ASPHYXIOUS
that would give an edge to their lord over the others, they
must act quickly. Nothing invites more ruthless retaliation TERMINUS
than the failure to seize such chances.

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 BANE WITCH AGATHIA
CRYX WARCASTER
Once regarded as both prisoner and oracle, Bane Witch Agathia is one of the more
FOCUS: 7
unusual weapons in Cryx’s arsenal. In life she was valued for her insight into the
AGATHIA 1
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
6 6 7 4 15 15 9 occult, and the tragic circumstances of her death only increased her worth to the dark
lords of the Nightmare Empire. Though presently more pawn than queen, Agathia
DEATH KISS
RNG POW P+S has begun to assert her will, and she may yet find a way to choose her own fate.
2 6 12
For decades Agathia resided in the solitary watchtower at Hell’s Hook overlooking
DAMAGE:16 Cryx’s barren southern coast. Her peculiar imprisonment there was a result of having
betrayed her former master, Lich Lord Daeamortus, in her dogged pursuit of occult
WJ FA
BASE:SMALL
+29 C knowledge. Judging her too valuable to be slain outright, the lich lord cast her soul
into the depths of the void to wander endlessly between worlds. A host of thralls
AGATHIA 1
UNDEAD
attended her motionless but living form, and on those rare occasions when Cryxians
DARK SHROUD – While in this model’s melee range, came to her tower seeking advice on otherworldly matters, her consciousness
enemy models suffer –2 ARM.
returned briefly to speak scraps of truth veiled by riddles. After Daeamortus was
SOUL TAKER: CULL SOUL – This model can gain soul
tokens. When a living enemy model is destroyed within destroyed and replaced, Agathia was forgotten and her tower abandoned. The
2˝ of this model, this model gains the destroyed model’s
soul token. After this model replenishes its focus during
thralls that attended her soon fell apart, and her body died not long thereafter.
your next Control Phase, replace each soul token with
1 focus point. While searching for useful salvage, servants of Lich Lord Tenebrous found
DEATH KISS Agathia’s body in the tower’s inner chamber. Tenebrous took a personal interest
DAMAGE TYPE: MAGICAL in her condition. By plumbing the depths of the void he found and recovered
FEAT: SHADOWFALL her soul, discovering her mind was remarkably intact despite her time in that
From her time in the void, Agathia learned mastery over hellscape. The foremost expert in such matters, the lich lord reunited Agathia’s
darkness itself. She can create shadows so dark they serve
as holes in reality, enabling her army to vanish in one place
soul with her unliving flesh, creating a uniquely powerful bane. She returned as a
and reappear in another to take her enemies completely by shadow of death, retaining great insights from her time in the void. Her mind had
surprise.
been fractured and reshaped, and now Agathia moves through the world like a
Friendly Faction models/units currently in Agathia’s
control range are affected by Ghost Walk. While in sleepwalker, coming fully awake only in the midst of battle. She remains connected
Agathia’s control range, friendly Faction models gain to her past only by fleeting memories she finds difficult to interpret.
Stealth  . Additionally, when a warjack in Agathia’s
battlegroup ends its activation in her control range, you
can immediately place that model anywhere completely Tenebrous regards Agathia as an invaluable tool, prizing her unusual perspective
within 3˝ of its location. Shadowfall lasts for one round. on the world and the way her transfigured mind interprets arcane mysteries. He
SPELLS COST RNG AOE POW DUR OFF covets the secrets buried within her memories. Bound to the lich lord’s service,
GHOST WALK 2 6 – – TURN NO Agathia serves him by plundering tombs and sacred grounds in the pursuit of lost
Target friendly Faction model/unit gains Ghostly for
one turn. (A model with Ghostly can advance through and ancient lore, bringing him treasures to add to his vast repository. Unknown to
terrain and obstacles without penalty and can advance Tenebrous, Agathia’s memories have begun to return, and she has taken a secret
through obstructions if it has enough movement to
move completely past them. It cannot be targeted by interest in unearthing the mysteries of her past. The lich lord’s trust has enabled
free strikes.) her to operate with minimal oversight, a fact she has exploited to extend her
HELLFIRE 3 10 – 14 – YES
Models disabled by Hellfire cannot make a Tough roll.
missions abroad and visit sites of her own choosing. On more than one occasion
Models boxed by Hellfire are removed from play. she has convinced her master to send her on expeditions more beneficial to her
HELLWROUGHT 2 6 – – UP NO research than to his.
Target warjack in the spellcaster’s battlegroup gains
+2 ARM and Retaliation. (If a model with Retaliation
was damaged by an enemy attack during the last round,
Though Agathia remains a potent oracle, her sense of time has become fractured,
during your Maintenance Phase it can advance up to 3˝ and it is not always possible for the bane witch to tell whether the visions revealed
and make one basic melee attack.)
to her are representative of the future or remnants of her forgotten past. She
PARASITE 3 8 – – UP YES
Target model/unit suffers –3 ARM and the spellcaster is plagued by visions that can send her into fits of rage or bring on feelings of
gains +1 ARM. hopelessness that shatter her stoic demeanor. Agathia has been careful to conceal
VANISH 1 SELF – – – NO
Place the spellcaster anywhere completely within 3˝ of
these outbursts from her master. Tenebrous is as yet unaware of her personal
its current location. Vanish can be cast only once per interests and growing autonomy. As slivers of her memory return, Agathia’s silent
activation.
disobedience grows, and while she continues to give her master the valuable relics
she obtains, she is not above examining them for herself first, seeking pieces of a
key to unlock her mind.

TACTICAL TIPS
Soul Taker: Cull Soul – A model can have more focus points than its FOCUS as a result of Cull Soul.
Remember, if more than one model is eligible to collect a model’s soul token, the closest eligible model
collects it.

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 CAPTAIN AIAKOS
CRYX WARCASTER
A merciless cutthroat of the high seas, Aiakos has risen from humble beginnings
FOCUS: 6
among the gangs of Blackwater to become one of the fiercest captains in Cryx’s pirate
AIAKOS 2
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
6 6 7 5 15 15 9 fleet. He has assembled his crew one by one from inhabitants of the Scharde island
chain, selecting only those pirates who exhibit exceptional ruthlessness and skill.
HARPOON
RNG ROF AOE POW
6 1 — 12
Aiakos and his crew live to prove themselves in combat. The warcaster rushes to
the forefront of every engagement, bounding from ship to ship and hurtling over
REAVER the planks to skewer his opponents with harpoon and blade. Helljacks follow in
RNG POW P+S
1 7 13 his wake, cutting down sailors on tightly packed decks or rising from the roiling
tide to wreak havoc among coastal towns. Wherever the promise of a bloody battle
DAMAGE:17
arises, Aiakos and his crew are not far behind.
WJ
+29
FA
C
BASE:SMALL After earning his notoriety in the Cryxian pirate fleet and gaining the favor of its
leader, Admiral Axiara Wraithblade, Aiakos set his sights on commanding his own
AIAKOS 2 ship. When the pirate king of Blackwater, Lord Craethan Morvaen, demanded a
TOUGH
JUMP – After it makes a full advance during its Normal
greater share of Aiakos’ earnings, the warcaster saw his opportunity to better his
Movement but before it performs its Combat Action, place in the hierarchy of the Scharde Islands.
you can place this model anywhere completely within
5˝ of its current location. Any effects that prevent Appearing to capitulate to Morvaen’s demands, Aiakos and his crew offered up a
charging also prevent this model from using Jump.
HARPOON haul of riches recovered from the lost flagship of Lich Lord Daeamortus, a vessel
DAMAGE TYPE: MAGICAL last seen in the final days of the Scharde Invasions. Morvaen was tempted by the
DRAG – When this weapon damages an enemy model treasure trove of artifacts, coins, and ancient relics, certain the lich lords would
with an equal or smaller base, immediately after the
attack is resolved the damaged model can be pushed reward him richly when he offered them a portion of the haul, and he granted
directly toward this model until it contacts a model, an Aiakos and his soldiers entry to his fortress without question. While the guards
obstacle, or an obstruction. After the damaged model
is moved, this model can make one basic melee attack searched the pirate crew for weapons upon entry, both they and Morvaen were
against the damaged model. After resolving this melee
attack, this model can make additional melee attacks
blinded by greed and overlooked the seemingly inert, barnacle-encrusted helljack,
during its Combat Action. known as Kharybdis, waiting amid the offerings.
REAVER
DAMAGE TYPE: MAGICAL During Morvaen’s inspection of the generous tribute, Kharybdis remained
GRIEVOUS WOUNDS – A model hit by this weapon loses motionless—until the lord leaned in to take a closer look at the helljack. It was
Tough  and cannot have damage removed from it for
one round. then that Kharybdis unleashed a spray of black ichor in Morvaen’s face. As
Morvaen screamed in agony, Aiakos’ crew retrieved weapons stashed among
FEAT: BOARDING ACTION
the plunder, and the warcaster bid Kharybdis to rise. Together they slew any
Aiakos sends forth his forces like a tide of nightmares,
crushing his foes beneath a wave of blackened iron. who stood against them, and Aiakos soon emerged with Morvaen’s head on his
Models in Aiakos’ battlegroup that are currently in his trident for all of Blackwater to see.
control range gain +3 SPD and Assault  . Boarding
Action lasts for one turn.
In addition to seizing Morvaen’s fortress and the treasure within, Aiakos claimed
SPELLS COST RNG AOE POW DUR OFF the lord’s formidable ship, Nocturnus. Though Aiakos maintains a measure of
ASSAIL 2 6 – – UP NO influence in Blackwater, he rarely stays in the Cryxian port. The warcaster leaves
Target friendly Faction warjack can charge or make
slam or trample power attacks without spending focus. dockside affairs in the hands of the Quay Slayers, the street gang he ran with
The warjack gains +2˝ movement when it charges before his career as a raider and the manifestation of his warcaster talent. The
or makes a slam or trample power attack. Models
slammed by the warjack are moved +2˝. gang now occupies Morvaen’s former fortress and has grown appreciably in
CARNAGE 2 SELF
CTRL – TURN
NO power and influence.
Friendly Faction models gain +2 to melee attack rolls
against enemy models in the spellcaster’s control range. What Aiakos has achieved may satisfy a lesser man, but the pirate’s burning lust
Carnage lasts for one turn.
SCYTHING TOUCH 2 6 – – UP NO
for bloodshed and treasure does not permit him to rest. Until he has had his fill
Target friendly Faction model gains Dark Shroud. of spilled blood and plunder, Aiakos will continue his reign of terror, building his
(While in the melee range of a model with Dark
Shroud, enemy models suffer –2 ARM.) reputation one corpse at a time.
STRANGLEHOLD 2 10 – 11 * YES
A model damaged by Stranglehold forfeits either its
Normal Movement or its Combat Action during its next
TACTICAL TIPS
activation, as its controller chooses. White Squall – Incorporeal models are not thrown; they just suffer a damage roll.
WHITE SQUALL 3 8 – 12 – YES
Instead of suffering a normal damage roll, a non-
incorporeal model hit by White Squall is thrown d6˝
directly away from the spell’s point of origin and suffers
a POW 12 damage roll. The model thrown does not
deviate. Collateral damage from this throw is POW 12.

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 IRON LICH ASPHYXIOUS
CRYX WARCASTER
Asphyxious has become the Dragonfather’s chosen instrument on the mainland
FOCUS: 7
and the unholy general of the rapacious unliving army of Cryx. His campaigns
ASPHYXIOUS 1
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
5 7 6 3 15 16 7 have carved out bastions for Cryxian forces on the continent, where he excavates
pits of evil and despair in old, deserted battlefields to spawn countless horrors.
SOULSPLITTER
RNG POW P+S
2 8 15
The iron lich has almost forgotten the time he was alive; it was the blink of an
eye compared to the sixteen centuries he has spent in his greater form. Yet once
DAMAGE:18 he was a powerful member of the enigmatic Circle Orboros, tasked to watch over
the Scharde Islands. When he saw Lord Toruk flying across the ocean to seize the
WJ FA
BASE:MEDIUM
+28 C islands for himself, Asphyxious realized the true shape of ultimate power.

ASPHYXIOUS 1
UNDEAD
SOUL TAKER: CULL SOUL – This model can gain soul
tokens. When a living enemy model is destroyed within
2˝ of this model, this model gains the destroyed model’s
soul token. After this model replenishes its focus during
your next Control Phase, replace each soul token with
1 focus point.
SOULSPLITTER
DAMAGE TYPE: MAGICAL
SUSTAINED ATTACK – During this model’s activation,
when it makes an attack with this weapon against the
last model hit by the weapon this activation, the attack
automatically hits.
FEAT: CONSUMING BLIGHT
Death follows the iron lich wherever he passes, and it
is on the energies of death that Asphyxious feeds. In a
horrific demonstration of necromancy, this terrible undead
warcaster emits an all-consuming blight that leeches vitality
from everything around him, empowering him to unleash
an even greater slaughter.
Enemy models currently in Asphyxious’ control range
suffer an unboostable POW 5 damage roll. Consuming
Blight damage rolls are simultaneous. Asphyxious
then gains up to 7 focus points. He cannot have more
focus points than his current FOCUS as a result of
Consuming Blight.
SPELLS COST RNG AOE POW DUR OFF
BREATH OF CORRUPTION 3 8 3 12 RND YES
Models hit suffer a POW 12 corrosion damage roll  .
This spell’s AOE is a cloud effect and hazard that
remains in play for one round. Models entering or
ending their activations in the AOE suffer 1 point of
corrosion damage  .
HELLFIRE 3 10 – 14 – YES
Models disabled by Hellfire cannot make a Tough roll.
Models boxed by Hellfire are removed from play.
PARASITE 3 8 – – UP YES
Target model/unit suffers –3 ARM and the spellcaster
gains +1 ARM.
SCYTHING TOUCH 2 6 – – UP NO
Target friendly Faction model gains Dark Shroud.
(While in the melee range of a model with Dark
Shroud, enemy models suffer –2 ARM.)
SPECTRAL LEECH 2 10 – – – YES
Remove d3 focus or fury points from target model hit
by Spectral Leech.
TELEPORT 2 SELF – – – NO
Place the spellcaster anywhere completely within 6˝ of
its current location, then its activation ends.
The mortal druid spent his days witnessing the seminal acts by which the Cryxian
Empire was born. He saw the dread ship Atramentous sail into Darkmoor Harbor
to greet the gathered pirate kings, exulted in the following slaughter, and watched
with jealous hunger as the Dragon obliterated the twelve pirate kings and remade
them into undying lich lords.
Renouncing his ancient vows, Asphyxious went to Lord Toruk at the site that
would become known as Dragon’s Roost, in the shadow of a great volcano. The
druid prostrated himself and offered his service in exchange for even a fraction of
the Dragon’s power. Toruk made no promises but challenged the mortal to prove
his willingness to sacrifice everything.
Asphyxious did not flinch. He climbed atop the lip of the volcano and jumped into
its depths. His horrific screams were swallowed by the magma as it stripped his
flesh. Toruk scooped his bones from the caldera with one massive talon and blew
a spark of unlife into them. The druid’s dark soul lingered, agitated from torment,
and was placed into a metal vessel of power so as to evade the greedy clutches of
Urcaen. On that day, Asphyxious entered the Dragon’s employ.
After the forges of Skell were completed and the industry of Toruk’s new empire
began to belch smoke and assemble the first weapons for his new army, the Dragon
called forth the liches. To Asphyxious and the lich lords he gave the gift of steel,
wrapping their brittle bones in frames of dark metal and imbuing them with the
strength and durability of alloyed iron. He then sent Asphyxious forth to master
the great powers of necromancy and do the Dragon’s bidding.
For sixteen centuries Asphyxious has gathered lore, mastered war and the arcane
arts, and become as formidable a creature as has ever walked the face of Caen.
He looks to orchestrate the will of Toruk, see the Dragon’s empire encompass the
mainland, drown its cities in blood, and release a never-ending tide of souls from
which he can drink and draw power. Asphyxious leaves behind ashen fields of
lifeless grasses and withered trees. Blackened corpses and bubbling pools of gore
are all that remain of his victims. The demands of his iron body create a ravenous
thirst for fresh souls. The powerful iron carapace grants great physical strength,
and his iron talons wield the ensorcelled Soulsplitter—a twin-pronged spear
bathed in raw entropy.
Iron Lich Asphyxious is a terrible foe, crafty beyond measure and capable of any
act in Toruk’s name. A prime source of the cancer feeding upon western Immoren,
he gleefully spreads the shadow of the Dragonlord’s wings. It is a shadow that will
one day, by his efforts, extend across all Caen.

TACTICAL TIPS
Breath of Corruption – Affected models do not also suffer blast damage.
Soul Taker: Cull Soul – A model can have more focus points than its FOCUS as a result of Cull Soul.
Remember, if more than one model is eligible to collect a model’s soul token, the closest eligible model
collects it.
Teleport – This model cannot be placed on or in an obstruction or in impassable terrain as a result of Teleport.

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 LICH LORD ASPHYXIOUS
CRYX WARCASTER
For millennia Asphyxious has schemed, taking calculated action and instigating
FOCUS: 7
intricate plans no mortal mind could hope to unravel. The lich lord’s cold genius
ASPHYXIOUS 2
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
5 7 6 3 15 16 8 has created holds in Cryx where none existed and carved a private undead empire
from nothing. It has also spawned unspeakable treachery. Asphyxious draws all
DAEAMORTUS
RNG POW P+S he touches into webs of intrigue that blind even visions and prophecy. Many have
2 8 15 been sacrificed or reborn to further his schemes, and not even the other masters of
DAMAGE:18
Cryx have escaped his manipulations.

No fewer than two lich lords have fallen, directly or indirectly, as a result of
WJ FA
BASE:MEDIUM
+28 C Asphyxious’ complex schemes. The first to succumb to his machinations was the
ancient and powerful Lich Lord Daeamortus: his undying soul and pieces of his
ASPHYXIOUS 2
UNDEAD
undead remains were bound to a deadly new weapon that Asphyxious had forged.
SOUL REAPER (HACTION) – Place a 5˝ AOE anywhere That Toruk did not interfere or seek punishment for the loss of one of his generals
completely within this model’s control range. The AOE
remains in play for one round. When a living enemy
attests to Asphyxious’ keen political acumen; in fact, the Dragonfather even
model is destroyed in the AOE, this model gains the elevated Asphyxious to his former rival’s vacant station. While Asphyxious insists
destroyed model’s soul token. While the AOE is in play,
this model cannot attack with Daeamortus and has no he had no part in the subsequent destruction of Lich Lord Morbus at the hands of
melee range. Cygnaran warcasters, the involvement of Asphyxious’ subordinate, Wraith Witch
SOUL TAKER: CULL SOUL – This model can gain soul
tokens. When a living enemy model is destroyed within Deneghra, in this chain of events strongly suggests a connection.
2˝ of this model, this model gains the destroyed model’s
soul token. After this model replenishes its focus during After securing his elevation to the inner circle of the lich lords, Asphyxious
your next Control Phase, replace each soul token with
1 focus point.
launched the next stage of his relentless plan. Under the pretense of establishing
DAEAMORTUS a great necrofactorium beneath the Thornwood, the iron lich activated the
DAMAGE TYPE: MAGICAL malefic energies of the Temple Garrodh, at whose heart lay Orgoth machinery
FEAT: SPECTRAL LEGION through which he intended to achieve godhood. Thousands fought and died at
Calling on his powers of necromancy, Lich Lord his behest to provide the souls necessary to charge the device. Had his scheme
Asphyxious beckons forth his former servants for one last gone as planned, Asphyxious might have ascended to divinity, seizing power
sally against his enemies. A ghostly horde of tireless spirits
carry out the lich lord’s nefarious will. that would allow him to rival Toruk himself. His schemes were eventually
Return up to d3 + 5 destroyed small- or medium-based thwarted—partially by another of his rivals, Lich Lord Terminus—but the very
Grunts that were part of a friendly Faction unit to play,
placing them completely within 3˝ of Asphyxious.
attempt showed the scope of Asphyxious’ inhuman ambition. Toruk ultimately
Returned models gain Undead  and Ghostly, become interceded to end the conflict between Asphyxious and Terminus before it
solos, and cannot be attacked or damaged for one turn.
Returned models must charge during their activations undermined Cryx’s efforts on the mainland.
and leave play at the end of this turn. (A model with
Ghostly can advance through terrain and obstacles Shrugging off this temporary setback, Asphyxious immediately initiated his next
without penalty and can advance through obstructions
if it has enough movement to move completely past ambitious plan by helping negotiate a secret pact between Lich Lord Thalassina
them. It cannot be targeted by free strikes.) and the cephalyx, enigmatic creatures that lurk in caverns far beneath the
SPELLS COST RNG AOE POW DUR OFF Thornwood. Without the aid of these alien beings, it would have taken generations
CAUSTIC MIST 2 CTRL 3 – RND NO for Asphyxious to establish his vast network of secret necrofactoriums scattered
Place a 3˝ AOE cloud effect completely within the
spellcaster’s control range. A model entering or
across the mainland. Thus, the lich lord has accelerated work on an expansion
ending its activation in the AOE suffers the Corrosion centuries in the making: a series of projects and contingencies that have allowed
continuous effect  . Caustic Mist lasts for one round.
him to quickly recover from even significant setbacks. Each fortress and stronghold
DEATH KNELL 4 8 4 10 – YES
Before dealing damage, count the number of models in the he creates is built to be expendable, serving its purpose and inevitably collapsing
AOE. Add the result to each Death Knell damage roll. before he moves to the next. He has not entirely surrendered his aspirations to
EXCARNATE 3 10 – 13 – YES
godlike status, but he bides his time while growing his army and cementing his
When a living enemy warrior model is boxed by
Excarnate, remove it from play. You can then add one political and occult power.
Grunt to a friendly Faction small-based undead unit
in the spellcaster’s control range. Place the Grunt in Asphyxious has been aided in all his endeavors by his faithful protégée Deneghra,
formation and completely within 3˝ of the spellcaster.
The Grunt must forfeit its Combat Action the turn it is whom he reshaped after her death to ideally suit his plans. The Wraith Witch
put into play.
serves as his right hand and closest confidante and can often be found at the eye of
3 SELF *
his ever-growing storm. With her help, the lich lord casts his long shadow across
HELLBOUND – RND NO
The spellcaster cannot be targeted by charges or slam
power attacks. While within 5˝ of the spellcaster, enemy the battlefields of western Immoren, darkening the land with a plague of undead
models treat open ground as rough terrain. Hellbound
lasts for one round. legions and the promise of destruction.
PARASITE 3 8 – – UP YES
Target model/unit suffers –3 ARM and the spellcaster
gains +1 ARM.
TACTICAL TIPS
TELEPORT 2 SELF – – – NO
Excarnate – The boxed model does not provide a soul or corpse token. The new Grunt can activate the turn
Place the spellcaster anywhere completely within 6˝ of it is put into play.
its current location, then its activation ends. Soul Reaper – Cull Soul converts soul tokens gained from Soul Reaper into focus points.
Soul Taker: Cull Soul – A model can have more focus points than its FOCUS as a result of Cull Soul. Remember,
if more than one model is eligible to collect a model’s soul token, the closest eligible model collects it.
Teleport – This model cannot be placed on or in an obstruction or in impassable terrain as a result of Teleport.
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 ASPHYXIOUS THE HELLBRINGER & VOCIFERON
CRYX WARCASTER & CRYX SKARLOCK THRALL SOLO

ASPHYXIOUS 3 FOCUS: 7
TACTICAL TIPS
FEAT: RITES OF SHADOW Hex Blast – Because they expire immediately,
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
5 8 6 3 15 17 9 When the time is right, Asphyxious the Hellbringer upkeep spells and animi that had an effect when the
invokes the Rites of Shadow to enfold the battlefield model/unit was hit or damaged will have no effect.
in a spiritual darkness of his own design. Amid
DAIMONION this flickering landscape, the magic of his enemies Rites of Shadow – Cull Soul converts tokens
RNG POW P+S is tainted. With every incantation his iron frame is gained from Rites of Shadow into focus points. If a
2 8 16 mended, while the restless souls of the slaughtered rise model casts a spell by spending focus or fury, Rites
only to be harvested to fuel the Hellbringer’s powers. of Shadow triggers only once.
DAMAGE:18 When an enemy model is forced, casts a spell, Soul Taker: Cull Soul – A model can have more
or spends 1 or more focus or fury points while focus points than its FOCUS as a result of Cull
WJ FA in Asphyxious’ control range, Asphyxious can Soul. Remember, if more than one model is eligible
BASE:MEDIUM
+24 C remove d3 damage points and gains one soul
to collect a model’s soul token, the closest eligible
token. If a model casts a spell by spending focus
or fury, Rites of Shadow triggers only once. Rites model collects it.
ASPHYXIOUS 3
UNDEAD
of Shadow lasts for one round.
FIELD MARSHAL [UNYIELDING] – Warjacks in this
SPELLS COST RNG AOE POW DUR OFF
model’s battlegroup gain Unyielding. (While engaging
an enemy model, a model with Unyielding gains CALAMITY 3 10 – – UP YES
+2 ARM.) Target model/unit suffers –2 DEF and ARM.
SOUL TAKER: CULL SOUL – This model can gain soul CLOAK OF ASH 2 6 – – UP NO
tokens. When a living enemy model is destroyed within Target friendly Faction model/unit gains
2˝ of this model, this model gains the destroyed model’s Ashen Veil. Models are not affected while out
soul token. After this model replenishes its focus during of formation. (A model with Ashen Veil has
your next Control Phase, replace each soul token with concealment. Living enemy models without
1 focus point. Immunity: Fire  suffer –2 to attack rolls while
DAIMONION within 2˝ of a model with Ashen Veil.)
DAMAGE TYPE: MAGICAL HELLFIRE 3 10 – 14 – YES
BLOOD BOON – Once per activation, immediately after Models disabled by Hellfire cannot make
resolving an attack in which it destroyed an enemy a Tough roll. Models boxed by Hellfire are
model with this weapon, this model can cast a spell removed from play.
with COST 3 or less without spending focus. HEX BLAST 3 10 3 13 – YES
Enemy upkeep spells and animi on the model/
unit directly hit by Hex Blast immediately expire.
MOBILITY 3 SELF CTRL – TURN NO
Models in the spellcaster’s battlegroup currently in
its control range gain +2 SPD and Pathfinder 
for one turn.

More than a thousand years of preparation, intrigue, and
nested contingencies have brought Asphyxious closer than
ever to his goal of rising above the other lich lords. He has
established a hidden empire on the mainland filled with
necromechanikal terrors and built a ghastly army that stands
ready to answer his every command. Even those Cryxian
lords who despise him are eventually forced to turn to him
for aid.
Since the moment the druid who would eventually become a
lich lord chose to leap to his death as a sign of commitment to
the Dragonfather and rose again in undeath, Asphyxious has
chosen a path meant to ensure his eternal status as Toruk’s
most favored servant. Whereas once he was deemed merely
a useful minion in the arsenal of Lich Lord Daeamortus—
little more than a skilled scavenger feeding on the periphery
of mainland wars—he has since risen to change the very
shape of Cryxian leadership. Even his failures and defeats
have ultimately advanced his position, for he has the tenacity
as well as the ability and desire to adapt and exploit every
possible advantage.
Only the deathless city of Skell, capital of the Cryxian empire,
can rival the convoluted lairs Asphyxious has constructed.
Leveraging dark pacts made with the enigmatic cephalyx,
Asphyxious directed extensive excavation beneath the
Thornwood for years, creating a necrofactorium complex
without equal. Once the tunnels were established, Asphyxious
installed a vast abattoir and factory complex within, making
use of the plentiful products of battle: both those corpses his
forces gathered in their own quiet raids and those harvested
from the ongoing conflicts between the petty nations of
mankind. Asphyxious has eliminated one obstacle after
another, including the overseer of Cryxian war industry, Lich
Lord Morbus, who arrived on the mainland to urge patience
and advocate slow growth. When Morbus threatened to
seize control of the Thornwood necrofactoriums and impede
progress, Asphyxious encouraged Deneghra’s scheme to lure
the lich lord to his destruction. Asphyxious subsequently
emerged as the ultimate master of the Nightmare Empire’s
military production.
Asphyxious has willingly made major sacrifices to advance
his schemes, even allowing the invasion of his Thornwood
facilities to convince the mainland armies that they had
defeated Cryx. Despite the obliteration of the bulk of the
necrofactorium in the upper chambers, the deeper levels of
the cephalyx hive remained hidden and intact. Asphyxious
used the template perfected in the Thornwood to create other
smaller hidden operations elsewhere, including Cygnar’s
Wyrmwall Mountains.

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 As Toruk’s war on his progeny progresses, the other lich lords must deal with
Asphyxious if they wish to utilize the war resources he now controls. The forces he
VOCIFERON 1
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
6 5 5 3 13 16 9 has built are no mere raiding parties or even battalions; rather, they are the great
hosts Lord Toruk intends his lich lords to use to weaken his draconic progeny so
CLAWS
RNG POW P+S he can consume them. Should Caen be razed in the passage of these hosts, it is of
0.5 3 8 no consequence.
DAMAGE:5 Those few souls fortunate enough to have escaped the brief Cryxian occupation
FA
of Point Bourne have glimpsed the world Asphyxious would usher in: a charnel
BASE:SMALL
C land of inescapable death where souls are nothing but fuel for the Dragonfather.
ATTACHED [ASPHYXIOUS THE HELLBRINGER] –
To aid in this great work Asphyxious crafted Vociferon, a skarlock of extraordinary
This model is attached to Asphyxious the Hellbringer. cunning, perfectly equipped to serve as a conduit for souls. Vociferon benefits
Each warcaster can have only one model/unit attached
to it. from Asphyxious’ mastery of thrall runes. It carries a battle standard of death and
VOCIFERON 1 discord that resonates with unholy intent, for it was created to collect the essences
UNDEAD of all who perish within its reach. Vociferon also has sanction to speak with the lich
COMPANION [ASPHYXIOUS THE HELLBRINGER] –
This model is included in any army that includes lord’s voice and direct lesser minions.
Asphyxious the Hellbringer. If Asphyxious is destroyed
or removed from play, remove this model from play. Asphyxious views the prospect of upcoming battles with keen anticipation. He
This model is part of Asphyxious’ battlegroup.
intends to prove his worth in a conclusive fashion to Lord Toruk and thus elevate
DEATH REAPER – When a living enemy model is
destroyed while in this model’s command range, himself above his rivals. All that live shall look upon his armies and tremble as the
Asphyxious gains the destroyed model’s soul token.
MAGIC ABILITY [7]
world is reduced to ashen waste and its peoples to piteous howling souls in the
• SPECTRAL LEECH (HATTACK) – Spectral Leech is clutches of Asphyxious the Hellbringer.
a RNG 10 magic attack that causes no damage.
Instead, remove d3 focus or fury points from target
model hit. TACTICAL TIPS
• SPELL SLAVE (HACTION OR ATTACK) – This model
Death Reaper – Because Asphyxious is the model gaining the destroyed model’s soul token, use his
must be in its warcaster’s control range to make the
location when determining which model eligible to claim the soul token is closest to the destroyed model.
Spell Slave special action. When it does, it casts one
of the spells on its warcaster’s card with a COST Magic Ability – Performing a Magic Ability special action or special attack counts as casting a spell.
of 3 or less. This model cannot cast upkeep spells
Spell Slave – This model cannot cast spells if its warcaster is destroyed or removed from play. Spell Slave
or spells with a RNG of SELF or CTRL. When
casting an offensive spell, Spell Slave is a magic does not confer the ability to channel spells as a warcaster.
attack. Use this model’s Magic Ability score when
making magic attack rolls.

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 WARWITCH DENEGHRA
CRYX WARCASTER
Wherever she travels, Deneghra leaves a scorched path of devastation. On the
FOCUS: 7
battlefield she is a terror single-mindedly stalking each victim. Perversely angelic
DENEGHRA 1
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
7 5 5 4 16 14 8 in her wicked beauty, Deneghra drifts like a phantom through trees and walls
whenever she wills it. She need but whisper and men claw at their skulls in vain
SLIVER
RNG POW P+S attempts to silence the voice inside their minds. Those wretches who fall to her
2 7 12 spell would slit a familiar throat—comrade, brother, or beloved—at her command.
DAMAGE:16 The few who succeed in staving off her seductions become her reluctant prey. She
twirls, leaps, and laughs while enemy soldiers weep and blades slash air or strike
WJ FA
BASE:SMALL
+28 C harmlessly off her bladed armor. Then she ends the game with a single sweep
of her mechanikal spear Sliver. In Deneghra’s hand the weapon turns her foe’s
DENEGHRA 1
PARRY
shadow against him by entwining him in a writhing mass of umbral coils. Rather
STEALTH than being a release, death traps her victim’s soul in the cages dangling at her side.
SOUL TAKER: CULL SOUL – This model can gain soul
tokens. When a living enemy model is destroyed within The Cryxian warwitches are cruel beyond comparison and willing to commit any
2˝ of this model, this model gains the destroyed model’s
soul token. After this model replenishes its focus during act, no matter how depraved, in their lord’s name. Adept at necromancy and blade,
your next Control Phase, replace each soul token with they are cunning, adaptable, and unpredictable. The witches have been so warped
1 focus point.
SLIVER by Toruk’s influence that some suspect they have been drained of all humanity.
DAMAGE TYPE: MAGICAL
SHADOW BIND – A model hit by this weapon suffers
None who knew Deneghra as a youth could have anticipated she would become
Shadow Bind for one round. (A model suffering a merciless killer. She and her twin began life in a fishing village on the western
Shadow Bind suffers –3 DEF, and for one round when
it advances it cannot move except to change facing. coast of Cygnar. Occult portents unveiled by Skarre Ravenmane indicated
Shadow Bind can be shaken.) a mortal birth of a sorceress with unbridled potential. After she informed her
FEAT: THE WITHERING master Asphyxious of this presaged birth, he dispatched the pirate queen to
Darkness and death obey the beck and call of the warwitch. ensure the procurement of this precious asset personally. Skarre returned with
With mere spoken words and an arcane gesture, Deneghra her captive, believing herself successful. The auguries had been vague, however,
blankets an area with a web of debilitating despair.
Enemy models currently in Deneghra’s control range and she was unaware the power foretold was manifest in a pair of twins, not in
suffer –2 SPD, STR, MAT, RAT, DEF, and ARM and a single birth. Asphyxious discovered the nature of these misread signs later, too
cannot run, charge, or make power attacks or special
attacks. The Withering lasts for one round. late to rectify the situation easily.
SPELLS COST RNG AOE POW DUR OFF Deneghra proved an apt pupil. Asphyxious took her personally under his wing
CRIPPLING GRASP 3 8 – – UP YES and twisted the young woman into a phantasmal temptress—body, mind, and
Target model/unit suffers –2 SPD, STR, DEF, and
ARM. soul. She excelled at the arcane arts, and even the terrifying helljacks bowed to her
DARK SEDUCTION 4 8 – – – YES will. When the iron lich judged her ready, he unveiled the darkest secret: she had
Take control of target enemy non-warcaster, non-
warlock warrior model. You can immediately make a
a twin sister named Haley who possessed the other half of her soul. Asphyxious
full advance with that enemy model followed by a basic spoke of this Cygnaran sorceress and insisted she had stolen her twin’s essence
attack, then Dark Seduction expires. The enemy model
cannot be targeted by free strikes during this movement. while sharing a womb, preventing her from reaching her potential. In a murderous
Dark Seduction can be cast only once per activation. rage Deneghra volunteered to join the incursions of the mainland in order to find
A model can be affected by Dark Seduction only once
per turn. this twin and reclaim the stolen power. Pleased with his machinations, the iron lich
GHOST WALK 2 6 – – TURN NO sent forth his protégée as a lieutenant in his army.
Target friendly Faction model/unit gains Ghostly for
one turn. (A model with Ghostly can advance through Some scream in horror at her approach and others beg her for salvation, but
terrain and obstacles without penalty and can advance
through obstructions if it has enough movement to Deneghra yearns for one sound alone—the gurgle of her sister’s death rattle. That
move completely past them. It cannot be targeted by alone would be the sweet music of victory to her black soul.
free strikes.)
PARASITE 3 8 – – UP YES
Target model/unit suffers –3 ARM and the spellcaster TACTICAL TIPS
gains +1 ARM.
Scourge – This means every model in the AOE is knocked down, friendly and enemy alike.
SCOURGE 4 8 3 13 – YES
Models hit by this attack become knocked down. Soul Taker: Cull Soul – A model can have more focus points than its FOCUS as a result of Cull Soul.
Remember, if more than one model is eligible to collect a model’s soul token, the closest eligible model
VENOM 2 SP 8 – 10 – YES
Venom causes corrosion damage  . Models hit suffer collects it.
the Corrosion continuous effect  .

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CRYX WARCASTER
When Deneghra fell to the blade of her twin sister, Victoria Haley, at the end of 605 AR,
FOCUS: 7
the result was not her destruction but rather her empowerment and liberation in a
DENEGHRA 2
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
7 5 5 4 16 15 8 new undead form. Asphyxious would have waited until a later death, but the lich
lord had long planned to exalt her stature in unlife. After her body was returned
ECLIPSE
RNG POW P+S to him by one of her faithful Slayers, Asphyxious brought the corpse into his
2 7 12 necrofactorium, where he directed a team of necrosurgeons in returning her to an
DAMAGE:16
immortal reflection of her former self.

Deneghra rose from her blasphemous restoration not fully embodied. The bond
WJ FA
BASE:SMALL
+28 C between her flesh and spirit had been weakened by the soul cairn at Garrodh,
and these corruptive energies had warped and twisted her flesh. Deneghra was
DENEGHRA 2
PARRY
torn between the physical and spectral worlds. With fresh insight into the realms
UNDEAD beyond death, she found her link to shadow increased a thousandfold. Another
SOUL TAKER: CULL SOUL – This model can gain soul
tokens. When a living enemy model is destroyed within
would have succumbed to fear or madness, but Deneghra drew strength from
2˝ of this model, this model gains the destroyed model’s her ordeal, which opened her undying eyes to the entropic mysteries of the void
soul token. After this model replenishes its focus during
your next Control Phase, replace each soul token with between death and life.
1 focus point.
WRAITH WALKER – At the end of your Control Phase, Darkness itself now heeds the Wraith Witch’s command, entangling her foes in
this model can gain Incorporeal  for one round unless choking shadows that writhe hungrily even in the light of day. She can channel
it gained Incorporeal during the last round.
ECLIPSE the energy of death itself to reduce enemies to mere phantasms. Her amplified
DAMAGE TYPE: MAGICAL connection to shadow has taken her beyond the scope of warwitch sorcery to
DARK BANISHMENT – When this model damages an become the umbral master of an even greater craft.
enemy model with this weapon during its activation,
after the attack is resolved you can place the enemy
model anywhere completely within d6 + 3˝ of its Deneghra wields Eclipse, a vicious iron glaive once held by the vanquished Lich
current location. Lord Daeamortus. It was with spiteful pride that Asphyxious granted the weapon
FEAT: BLADES OF SHADOW of his hated foe to his protégée. In bestowing it upon her, he celebrated the betrayal
Deneghra’s tenebrous powers reached their apex upon her and defeat of his former superior while also acknowledging the power he had
death. Now the Wraith Witch can call upon the power of cultivated in his favored witch.
darkness itself to bind her enemies and leave them helpless
to avoid her cruel intentions.
In life, Deneghra was content merely to carry out the designs of her master. But
While in Deneghra’s control range, the weapons of
friendly Faction models gain Shadow Bind. Blades of death has removed a certain haze from her mind even as it has sharpened her
Shadow lasts for one turn. (A model hit by a weapon
with Shadow Bind suffers –3 DEF, and for one round
occult awareness. Her brief time among the dead has increased her ambition and
when it advances it cannot move except to change the depth of her understanding of Cryx’s unforgiving hierarchy. She now moves to
facing. Shadow Bind can be shaken.)
claim her place as one of the greatest commanders of Cryx, having earned the fear
SPELLS COST RNG AOE POW DUR OFF and respect of her peers and even a degree of genuine appreciation from Lich Lord
CURSE OF SHADOWS 3 8 – – UP YES Asphyxious himself. Her plots grow ever more nefarious and far-reaching, but her
Target model/unit suffers –2 ARM and cannot make
free strikes. A model can advance through an affected devotion to Asphyxious has never wavered. Her tactical acumen and her capacity
model if it has enough movement to move completely for inventive wickedness are matched only by her loyalty.
past its base.
HELLMOUTH 4 8 * 12 – YES
If this attack misses, nothing happens. If it hits, before TACTICAL TIPS
making the damage roll, push models within 3˝ of the
model hit 3˝ directly toward it in the order you choose. Hellmouth – Because the boxed model is removed from play before being destroyed, it does not generate
Then center a 3˝ AOE on the model hit. Models soul or corpse tokens.
hit suffer a POW 12 damage roll. Models boxed by Pursuit – Remember, if an affected model made a full advance, ran, or charged during its activation, a
Hellmouth are removed from play.
model in this model’s battlegroup gets to make a full advance.
INFLUENCE 2 10 – – – YES
Soul Taker: Cull Soul – A model can have more focus points than its FOCUS as a result of Cull Soul. Remember,
Take control of target enemy non-warcaster, non-
warlock warrior model. The model immediately makes if more than one model is eligible to collect a model’s soul token, the closest eligible model collects it.
one basic attack, then Influence expires. A model can Wraith Walker – This model loses Incorporeal when it makes a melee or ranged attack.
be affected by Influence only once per turn.
MARKED FOR DEATH 2 8 – – UP YES
Target model/unit suffers –2 DEF, loses Incorporeal 
and Stealth  , and cannot gain Incorporeal  or
Stealth  while affected by Marked for Death.
PURSUIT 2 8 – – UP YES
If target enemy model/unit advances during its
activation, one model in the spellcaster’s battlegroup
that is in its control range can immediately make a full
advance.
VENOM 2 SP 8 – 10 – YES
Venom causes corrosion damage  . Models hit suffer
the Corrosion continuous effect  .

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CRYX BATTLE ENGINE WARCASTER

DENEGHRA 3 FOCUS: 7 SOUL MASTERY – At any time during its activation, FEAT: HELL GATE
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD this model can spend soul tokens to use one of the
9 5 6 4 15 16 9 following effects for each token spent. Deneghra’s grasp on the thread between life and
death has given rise to powers most terrible during
• ARCANE SPIRITS – This model can cast a spell
her service to the Nightmare Empire. Drawing upon
VENOMOUS BREATH with COST 3 or less without spending focus.
the well of imprisoned souls at her disposal, the
RNG ROF AOE POW • VENGEFUL SPIRITS – Choose a warjack in Cryxian warcaster descends on the living with a
— SP 8 1 — 10 this model’s battlegroup that is in its CMD deluge of power to fuel her blistering spells.
range. The warjack gains up to 3 focus points.
Deneghra immediately gains seven soul tokens.
MALEFACTOR SOUL TAKER: CULL SOUL – This model can gain
RNG POW P+S soul tokens. When a living enemy model is SPELLS COST RNG AOE POW DUR OFF
— 2 8 13 destroyed within 2˝ of this model, this model
gains the destroyed model’s soul token. After GHOST WALK 2 6 – – TURN NO
this model replenishes its focus during your next Target friendly Faction model/unit gains Ghostly
MOUNT for one turn. (A model with Ghostly can advance
Control Phase, replace each soul token with 1
RNG POW through terrain and obstacles without penalty
focus point.
— 0.5 12 and can advance through obstructions if it has
SOUL WEAVER – Once per turn at any time during
its activation, this model can remove soul tokens enough movement to move completely past
DAMAGE:18 from one friendly Faction model in its command them. It cannot be targeted by free strikes.)
range and place them on itself. GRAVE WIND 2 6 – – UP NO
WJ FA VENOMOUS BREATH Target friendly Faction model gains +2 DEF
BASE:HUGE
+27 C and Poltergeist. (When an enemy model
CONTINUOUS EFFECT: CORROSION
misses a model with Poltergeist with an attack,
DAMAGE TYPE: CORROSION
DENEGHRA 3 immediately after the attack is resolved you can
MALEFACTOR choose to push the enemy model d3˝ directly
CAVALRY away from the model with Poltergeist.)
DAMAGE TYPE: MAGICAL
CONSTRUCT
FLIGHT MORTALITY 3 10 – – RND YES
UNDEAD
Target model/unit suffers –2 DEF and ARM,
loses Tough  , and cannot have damage
REPOSITION [5˝] – At the end of an activation in which
removed from it. Mortality lasts for one round.
it did not run or fail a charge, this model can advance
up to 5˝, then its activation ends. SCOURGE 4 8 3 13 – YES
Models hit by this attack become knocked down.

Thousands have suffered and died because of the warwitch
Deneghra. Thousands more will fall before her in the days
to come. As Cryx’s legions sweep across western Immoren,
she stands ready to enact the will of her mentor, Asphyxious.
Deneghra has served the lich lord as his most potent and loyal
retainer, proving her cunning and her absolute command of
the arcane gift with which she was born. She manipulates the
armies of her enemies into attacking where she desires and
outmaneuvers them with her own forces. Her actions have
put events in motion that shape the fate of nations.
In the time since her death and reanimation she has plumbed
the depths of her necromantic powers, gaining profound
insight into and dominion over mortal souls. In her wake the
world of the living is left blackened and exanimate. Deneghra
manipulates the souls of the dead with consummate skill,
stealing their power for her own designs. Those slain in her
presence are forbidden passage into Urcaen, their souls left
twisting in her grasp.
Such is her mastery that she can send these tormented
spirits to empower the machines at her command or tear
their essence apart to weave a torrent of withering magic.
It is possible her own arcane gifts comprise the perfect dark
counterpart to the talents of her still-living twin, currently
recognized as the most potent arcanist of the age. Those who
have witnessed Deneghra’s efforts know all too well that she
has evolved into a warcaster every bit the equal of Victoria
Haley—an implacable and unpredictable adversary.
Many of Lich Lord Asphyxious’ triumphs can be laid directly
at Deneghra’s feet. No obstacle, not even death, has stayed
her from achieving her master’s wishes. In pursuing his
goals, she has amassed power and influence of her own. From
out of his shadow, she has risen in prominence to become the
Soul Weaver, a black queen of the Nightmare Empire.
Deneghra rides a powerful necromechanikal mount built to
her specifications by the master necrotechs of the Thornwood
necrofactorium, a tool and weapon designed to augment
her mobility. This fearsome engine of destruction made
an appearance in the final clash in defense of that ill-fated
complex; from the skies Deneghra sowed terror in the armies
below, soaring high to blot out the sun as the lich lord and
other key figures made their withdrawal. She flies this mount
still, from one hidden Cryxian base to another, hunting where
she pleases. Those caught in her long shadow know instantly
they are destined to live or die by her will.
TACTICAL TIPS
Scourge – This means every model in the AOE is knocked down, friendly and
enemy alike.
Soul Taker: Cull Soul – A model can have more focus points than its FOCUS as
a result of Cull Soul. Remember, if more than one model is eligible to collect a
model’s soul token, the closest eligible model collects it.
Vengeful Spirits – A warjack cannot exceed normal focus limits as a result of
Vengeful Spirits.

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CRYX WARCASTER UNIT

GORESHADE 1 FOCUS: 7 SPELLS COST RNG AOE POW DUR OFF DEATHWALKER
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
6 7 7 4 15 16 7 BLEED 2 8 – 10 – YES 6 3 4 3 14 10 5
When Bleed damages a living enemy model, this
model can remove d3 damage points.
BLOODCLEAVER FA
HEX BLAST 3 10 3 13 – YES BASE:SMALL
RNG POW P+S C
2 7 14 Enemy upkeep spells and animi on the model/
unit directly hit by Hex Blast immediately expire.
DEATHWALKER
DAMAGE:17 LAMENTATION 3 SELF CTRL – UP NO
UNDEAD
When an enemy model casts a spell while in the
BREATH TAKER – Living enemy models suffer
spellcaster’s control range, double the COST of
WJ FA the spell. Additionally, enemy models must pay –2 STR and DEF while in this model’s command
BASE:MEDIUM
+27 C double to upkeep spells on models/units in the range.
spellcaster’s control range. DARK RESTORATION – If Goreshade is disabled
GORESHADE 1 while in this model’s command range, this model
SHADOWMANCER 3 SELF * – RND NO is destroyed and 1 damage point is removed from
OFFICER While in spellcaster’s command range, models in
UNDEAD
Goreshade.
its battlegroup gain Stealth  and Dark Shroud.
GHOSTLY – This model can advance through
WARCASTER UNIT – This unit is made up of Goreshade Shadowmancer lasts for one round. (While in
and the Deathwalker. terrain and obstacles without penalty and can
the melee range of a model with Dark Shroud,
advance through obstructions if it has enough
BLOODCLEAVER enemy models suffer –2 ARM.)
movement to move completely past them. It
DAMAGE TYPE: MAGICAL SOUL GATE 3 CTRL – – – NO cannot be targeted by free strikes.
DEATHWALK – When this model boxes a living enemy Remove a friendly trooper model in the
warrior model with an attack with this weapon and the spellcaster’s control range from play and
Deathwalker is not in play, remove the boxed model replace it with target warjack in the spellcaster’s
from play and replace it with the Deathwalker. battlegroup that is in its control range. The
warjack cannot activate this turn after being TACTICAL TIPS
placed by Soul Gate.
FEAT: DARK SUMMONS Dark Restoration – Remember, if a damage point
Reaching into the frozen void between the realms of the is removed from a disabled model, the model is no
living and the dead, the eldritch Goreshade calls upon his longer disabled.
mastery of dark lore to summon a lethal group of bane Dark Summons – The Bane Warriors can activate
thralls bound to him and obligated to fight at his bidding.
normally this turn.
Put a unit of Bane Warriors (one Leader and five
Grunts) into play. Place each model completely within Deathwalk – Because the boxed model is removed
3˝ of Goreshade. from play before being destroyed, it does not
generate a soul or corpse token.

Goreshade once bore a different name: Ghyrrshyld. Decades
ago, this powerful Iosan noble accumulated a devoted
following and dreamed of halting the decline of his race. This
cause defined his final living days and, against his own moral
code, set him on the path to becoming an eldritch.
Centuries ago, the priests of Ios were severed from their gods.
The elves suffered widespread infertility, which doomed
them to slow extinction. Among the few children they had,
some were born with a horrifying condition: soullessness. The
elves’ apathy to their own plight offended Lord Ghyrrshyld,
and he set about forcing the Iosans to face their crisis.
Already a formidable politician, Ghyrrshyld had spent
years accumulating power for House Vyre, which hoarded
immense occult knowledge. Ghyrrshyld immersed himself
in lore, hoping to discover the root of his people’s ills. He
sought out profane secrets wherever he could find them,
even beyond the borders of Ios. He learned of a dark, terrible
void between Caen and the Veld—an abyss to which, he
suspected, the elven dead were condemned. His work
eventually revealed a possible solution, but one requiring
bloody sacrifice that his people would undoubtedly deem an
unforgivable blasphemy.
While Ghyrrshyld was absorbed in this research, his cousin’s
wife Lysevyn birthed a soulless child. In a rage, Ghyrrshyld
tore the silent child from its mother’s arms and stormed to
the meeting chamber of the Consulate Court with the infant.
Ghyrrshyld held the soulless newborn aloft and declaimed
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his peers as cowards. Then he dashed the child’s skull on the
stone floor before his horrified audience. This atrocity did
indeed spur the nobles to action, though not as he intended,
as Ios plunged into civil war.
Despite years of political strife, Ghyrrshyld remained fixed
on his research. He seized hundreds of soulless infants and
subjected them to monstrous experiments. In his single-
mindedness, Ghyrrshyld conducted similar ghoulish trials on
normal children as well. When his adversaries discovered the
gruesome truth, they united to breach his fortress compound.
In the final battle Ghyrrshyld was mortally wounded and
narrowly escaped. He crept into the forbidden ruin of Eversael
and, on the brink of death, let himself be transformed into an
eldritch, a monstrous undead abomination called Goreshade.
Knowing he would be hunted, he fled Ios, eventually reaching
the Nightmare Empire of Cryx. There he made obeisance before
Iron Lich Asphyxious, pledging to serve the Dragonfather.
Such oaths meant little to Goreshade, who sought primarily to
study the necromantic lore of Cryx. Soon, though, his arcane
prowess impressed even the masters of the dead, who entrusted
armies of thralls to him. With every life he took, a cursed spirit
was dragged from the void to steal his enemies’ breath and
grant him unnatural vitality. When not distracted by study or
slaughter, Goreshade stared into the night sky, remembering
when he nearly seized control of a nation to save its people.
Then he would be reminded he was just another general among
the legions of the Dragonfather.
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 GORESHADE THE CURSED
CRYX WARCASTER
By becoming an eldritch, the Iosan undead known as Goreshade gained insight
FOCUS: 7
into the origins of the void from which banes spring and which he believes may
GORESHADE 2
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
6 7 7 4 15 16 8 be attracting the souls of dead Iosans. Mastery of this lore irrevocably altered
his perception of reality. With the additional necromantic knowledge of Cryx, he
VOASS
RNG POW P+S came to believe the ailing Iosan gods had to be removed from Caen, even if that
2 8 15 meant their destruction. None of his own people could face the possibility that
DAMAGE:17
their salvation required their living gods to die, but Goreshade persisted in his
determination to see this great and terrible work completed. He used the armies
WJ FA
BASE:MEDIUM of Cryx for his own ends, playing a dangerous game with the immortal powers of
+28 C
the Nightmare Empire.
GORESHADE 2
IMMUNITY: COLD
Although some of Goreshade’s actions brought him perilously close to defying
UNDEAD the lich lords of Cryx, he convinced his superiors he remained faithful to Lord
ARCANE CONSUMPTION – When an enemy model
declares it is casting a spell while in this model’s
Toruk. Several of the eldritch’s actions would put his standing in jeopardy were
command range, the enemy spellcaster immediately they known, in particular his temporary alliance with the forces of the dragon
suffers d3 damage points and this model can remove d3
damage points. If the enemy spellcaster is destroyed as Ethrunbal, to whom he revealed the hiding place of the dragon Pyromalfic; such
a result of this damage, the spell does not take effect. intelligence should certainly have been given to Lich Lord Venethrax instead.
TACTICIAN [BANE] – While in this model’s command
range, friendly Bane models can ignore other friendly Goreshade had no qualms about these schemes, however, as he believed this act
Bane models when determining LOS. Friendly Bane necessary to gain information regarding the location of one of the last surviving
models can advance through other friendly Bane
models in this model’s command range if they have Iosan gods, Nyssor, Scyir of Winter. The chance to confront this divinity was
enough movement to move completely past them. worth any risk.
VOASS
DAMAGE TYPE: MAGICAL The vault of the god had been secured by Nyss refugees seeking asylum below the
FREEZE – A model hit by this weapon becomes catacombs of the great Morrowan cathedral in Korsk. Goreshade slaughtered its
stationary for one round unless it has Immunity: Cold  .
defenders to confront the Father of Winter, intending to extinguish the immortal
FEAT: REANIMATOR
flame within. This act of deicide proved far more difficult than he anticipated, and
Goreshade bolsters his mastery of death magic with
profane lore otherwise forgotten. As part of a dark
humans drove him from the cathedral before he could complete the task. As he fled
accounting he balances the scales of death by snuffing the he pulled the god-blade Voass from Nyssor’s frozen fingers, and the god invoked
animating force of one soldier to grant its spark to another.
a curse that marked the eldritch as a blasphemer and heretic. Goreshade accepted
Remove one or more friendly Faction warrior models
currently in Goreshade’s control range from play. this curse as his burden and believed the stolen weapon would allow him a better
For each model removed, return one destroyed non- outcome when next he faced either Scyrah or Nyssor. Once those two gods were
character friendly Faction warrior model to play
completely within Goreshade’s control range. Place gone, he hoped to commence the process of salvation for the elves—or their souls,
returned trooper models in formation with their original
units. Returned models forfeit their Combat Actions the
should they perish before he had reached his goal.
turn they return to play.
Goreshade’s eyes burn with a fire all the more terrifying for his unshakable
SPELLS COST RNG AOE POW DUR OFF
conviction. Even if his people refuse his notion of salvation, he intends to bring
ABYSSAL GATE 3 8 – 12 – YES
When Abyssal Gate damages an enemy non-warcaster, it to them by force. He stands ready to unmake Caen if he must. He sees no
non-warlock model, after the attack is resolved you can contradiction in destroying the world to save countless immortal souls.
place the enemy model anywhere completely within
3˝ of its current location. A model can be placed by
Abyssal Gate only once per turn. TACTICAL TIPS
CURSE OF SHADOWS 3 8 – – UP YES
Hex Blast – Because they expire immediately, upkeep spells and animi that had an effect when the model/
Target model/unit suffers –2 ARM and cannot make
free strikes. A model can advance through an affected unit was hit or damaged will have no effect.
model if it has enough movement to move completely Mirage – Remember, troopers must be placed in formation.
past its base.
Reanimator – Remember, you cannot return models to a unit that has been completely destroyed. Remove
HEX BLAST 3 10 3 13 – YES all damage from returned models.
Enemy upkeep spells and animi on the model/unit
directly hit by Hex Blast immediately expire. Tactician – Remember, a model is within its own command range.
MIRAGE 2 6 – – UP NO
Target friendly Faction model/unit gains Apparition.
(During your Control Phase, place models with
Apparition anywhere completely within 2˝ of their
current locations.)
OCCULTATION 2 6 – – UP NO
Target friendly Faction model/unit gains Stealth  .
Models are not affected while out of formation.

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 GORESHADE, LORD OF RUIN
CRYX WARCASTER
Unquestionably the most influential Iosan to have ever lived, the eldritch and
FOCUS: 7
would-be god-slayer Goreshade has for decades sought nothing less than the
GORESHADE 3
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
8 7 7 4 14 17 8 salvation, restoration, and liberation of his people from the gods themselves. For
decades he amassed knowledge and raw power so he could shake the people of Ios
VOASS
RNG POW P+S from their death spiral of apathy and spiritual dissolution. Though Goreshade was
2 8 15 dealt a mortal blow in the civil war that followed, he managed to sustain himself
MOUNT
not out of the fear of his own passing, which impels so many of the craven eldritch
RNG POW to seek to extend their lives past death, but out of an overpowering need to see his
0.5 12
greater work completed.
DAMAGE:17
After turning the machinations of the Nightmare Empire to his own ends, by 609 AR
WJ FA Goreshade came closer than ever to achieving his mission, thwarted only by the
BASE:LARGE
+27 C efforts of ignorant mortals who could not fathom his purposes. In a desperate
GORESHADE 3 attempt to salvage his plans he was forced to turn to some of his most deeply
CAVALRY hidden contingencies.
IMMUNITY: COLD
UNDEAD Goreshade went to great lengths to intercept the frozen vault of Nyssor but
REPOSITION [3˝] – At the end of an activation in which
it did not run or fail a charge, this model can advance
ultimately failed, as the Retribution of Scyrah had thrown all of its considerable
up to 3˝, then its activation ends. resources into the vault’s recovery. Though this loss might have seemed a setback
SPELL VORTEX – If an enemy model cast a spell in this
to Goreshade, his service to Cryx had taught him to see beyond short-term victories
model’s control range last turn, this model can cast one
spell without spending focus during its activation this and losses. By bringing Nyssor into Ios and to the Fane of Scyrah, the Retribution
turn.
had in fact set the stage for Goreshade to confront both of the surviving elven
VOASS
DAMAGE TYPE: MAGICAL
gods. Without delay Goreshade changed his plans, seeking to bring an end to
FREEZE – A model hit by this weapon becomes both Nyssor and Scyrah at once, an act by which he intended to dispel the doom
stationary for one round unless it has Immunity: Cold  .
threatening his people. He anticipated that their destruction would open the Veld
FEAT: WINTER’S GRASP to the children of the gods, allowing them to assume leadership over this spiritual
As proof that he is truly the Lord of Ruin, Goreshade dominion and establishing an empire in Urcaen to outlast the world of the living.
reaches inside Voass to steal the Father of Winter’s divine
power for his own profane use. With a sweep of the frozen He saw himself as the inevitable immortal ruler of this restored afterlife.
blade Goreshade’s enemies are seized in an unyielding grip,
rendered helpless and vulnerable. To most, such messianic ambitions would seem like madness, but Goreshade is
Center 3˝ AOEs on any number of friendly Faction a unique being. More than any mortal arcanist, he has come to understand the
non-warcaster warrior models currently in Goreshade’s
control range. Enemy models within an AOE become nature of the threshold between the worlds of the living and the dead. Armed
stationary for one round unless they have Immunity: with mystical secrets terrifying in their implications, Goreshade possessed the
Cold  , then the models the AOEs are centered on are
destroyed. instruments required to bring his plan to fruition, including powerful relics he
SPELLS COST RNG AOE POW DUR OFF
tainted and corrupted for his own ends. All that remained was to assemble the
INFERNAL MACHINE 2 6 – – UP NO
pawns to reach his objective and complete his ultimate blasphemy. He breached
Target warjack in the spellcaster’s battlegroup gains the borders of Ios and once more entered Eversael, the dark catacombs of his
Murderous and +2 SPD. (A model with Murderous
gains an additional die on melee attack rolls against transformation to undeath. There he recruited the other eldritch to his cause, and
warrior models.) with them at his side he marched to Shyrr, the capital, even as Ios was beset by war
MOCKERY OF LIFE 2 CTRL – – – NO
with the invading skorne. All of the events of his life and unlife conspired to place
Return one destroyed undead Grunt to a friendly
Faction unit with one unmarked damage box. Place him just where he was needed to fulfill his destiny, though the outcome would
the returned Grunt in the spellcaster’s control range, in
formation, and completely within 3˝ of another model
prove far different than he had anticipated.
in its unit. The Grunt must forfeit its Combat Action
the turn it is returned to play.
TACTICAL TIPS
OCCULTATION 2 6 – – UP NO
Target friendly Faction model/unit gains Stealth  . Mockery of Life – Remember, the Grunt can activate normally with its unit this turn. If all models in the
Models are not affected while out of formation. Grunt’s unit have been destroyed, it cannot be placed within 3˝ of a model in its unit and therefore cannot
SCYTHING TOUCH 2 6 – – UP NO return to play.
Target friendly Faction model gains Dark Shroud.
(While in the melee range of a model with Dark
Shroud, enemy models suffer –2 ARM.)
SIPHON BOLT 3 8 – 13 – YES
When this spell hits an enemy model with 1 or more
focus or fury points on it, that model loses 1 focus
or fury point and the spellcaster gains 1 focus point.
Spellcasters without the Focus Manipulation special
rule cannot gain focus as a result of Siphon Bolt.

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 MASTER NECROTECH MORTENEBRA & DERYLISS
CRYX WARCASTER & CRYX SKARLOCK THRALL SOLO

MORTENEBRA 1 FOCUS: 7 FEAT: RECALIBRATION SPELLS COST RNG AOE POW DUR OFF
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
6 7 6 4 15 16 8 Master Necrotech Mortenebra is a virtuoso of OVERRUN 2 6 – – TURN NO
the twisted occult science that gave rise to the war When target model in the spellcaster’s
machines of Cryx. By extending her power she battlegroup destroys one or more enemy
SCAVENGER can impart mechanical perfection to her entire models with an attack, immediately after the
RNG POW P+S army to maximize their killing efficiency. Though attack is resolved one model in the spellcaster’s
2 5 12 some would protest that the walking dead need no battlegroup that is in its control range can make
encouragement for slaughter, Mortenebra contends a full advance, then Overrun expires. A model
DAMAGE:16 there is always room for improvement. can advance only once per turn as a result of
Overrun. Overrun lasts for one turn.
While in Mortenebra’s control range, friendly
WJ FA Faction models can reroll attack and damage SACRIFICIAL LAMB 1 CTRL – – – NO
BASE:MEDIUM
+24 C rolls this turn. Each roll can be rerolled only once Remove one friendly Faction warrior model in
as a result of Recalibration. the spellcaster’s control range from play. Each
MORTENEBRA 1 warjack in the spellcaster’s battlegroup that
SPELLS COST RNG AOE POW DUR OFF is currently in its control range gains 1 focus
PATHFINDER
point. Sacrificial Lamb can be cast only once per
UNDEAD DOOM SPIRAL 2 8 – 12 – YES
activation.
INTERFACE – While B2B with this model, a warjack in When Doom Spiral damages a warjack that is
its battlegroup can spend focus points on it. part of a battlegroup, its controller suffers d3 SPECTRAL STEEL 3 6 – – UP NO
damage points. Target warjack in the spellcaster’s battlegroup
REPAIR [d3 + 3] (HACTION) – RNG B2B. Target friendly
gains +2 ARM and Ghostly. (A model with
Faction construct model. If the model is in range, JUMPSTART 1 SELF CTRL – – NO
Ghostly can advance through terrain and
remove d3 + 3 damage points from it. Models in the spellcaster’s battlegroup that are
obstacles without penalty and can advance
SOUL TAKER: CULL SOUL – This model can gain soul currently in its control range stand up and are
through obstructions if it has enough movement
tokens. When a living enemy model is destroyed within no longer stationary. Affected models can turn
to move completely past them. It cannot be
2˝ of this model, this model gains the destroyed model’s to face any direction. Models that were knocked
targeted by free strikes.)
soul token. After this model replenishes its focus during down this turn are not affected by Jumpstart.
your next Control Phase, replace each soul token with VOID GATE 3 10 3 13 RND
YES
1 focus point. The AOE remains in play for one round. While
in the AOE, enemy models cannot cast or
STEADY – This model cannot become knocked down.
channel spells.
SCAVENGER
DAMAGE TYPE: MAGICAL

Master Necrotech Mortenebra has emerged from the smoke-
belching factories of Skell to lead her constructs to war. The
living rarely get the chance to marvel long at her horrific
appearance before her helljacks strike. Even Cryxians find
her singularly cold, and her alien tone of voice and perfectly
calculated cadence in speaking stand out even among such
undead as the lich lords.
Undeterred by their platitudes, Mortenebra decided to take
a more radical approach, though it would forever alienate
her from the group that would evolve into the Convergence
of Cyriss. She experimented on the necromechanikal lords
of Cryx, which, to her analytical mind, provided the closest
parallel to the cult’s work. She recruited cult members loyal to
her to craft a meticulous trap, and she chose her prey carefully.

Cryxian necrotechs look upon Mortenebra with almost
religious adoration. They honor her with many epithets—
the Fleshless Maiden, the Mistress of Precision, the Cruel
Shaper. These titles merely amuse her, for they echo those
given to the goddess she once served: Cyriss, the Maiden of
Gears. Mortenebra reigns supreme over her dominion; any
necrotech impertinent enough to present her with flawed
engineering quickly joins the mistake on the scrapheap.
In life Mortenebra was drawn to one of the first organized
cults devoted to Cyriss, a goddess of machines and
mathematics. She joined this cult over three hundred years
ago, shortly after its founding, and contributed to some of
its fundamental breakthroughs—notably the transfer of a
sentient consciousness into a clockwork shell. She became
dissatisfied with the organization’s progress and perceived
flaws where others saw beauty.
Mortenebra finally identified the issue that so troubled her:
the creations did not possess true free will. Some external
force exercised a subtle but undeniable control over the
translated consciousness. Her peers accused her of paranoia
when she presented her findings, and they dismissed her
conclusions as palpable signs of Cyriss’ guiding hand.
Rumors she planted of a buried Orgoth library gained the
attention of an ancient iron lich of Skell named Lorvetus.
Though he obligingly took the bait, he proved difficult to
subdue and murdered most of her escort before Mortenebra
could secure the creature for closer scrutiny. She then dissected
the iron lich in her laboratory, working to isolate, extract, and
examine its animating spirit. She took her detailed findings
back to the cult’s main workshop along with the lich’s remains.
Her peers blanched in horror as she suggested incorporating
necromantic elements into their machinery.
The Cyrissists denounced Mortenebra and cast her out.
Unbeknownst to them, she retained loyal agents within the
organization who would conspire against their superiors.
When the cult finally succeeded in transferring a priest’s
TACTICAL TIPS
Jumpstart – Remember, a model cannot stand up during a turn in which it was
knocked down.
Soul Taker: Cull Soul – A model can have more focus points than its FOCUS as
a result of Cull Soul. Remember, if more than one model is eligible to collect a
model’s soul token, the closest eligible model collects it.
Steady – Remember, even if a thrown model cannot be knocked down, it must
still forfeit its Normal Movement or Combat Action if it activates later in a turn
it was thrown.

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 consciousness into a clockwork body, Mortenebra returned in force. She deactivated
the guardians, slew all who opposed her, and fled with the clockwork priest to Cryx.
DERYLISS 1
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
6 6 5 3 14 14 6
Mortenebra offered everything she knew to the lords of Blackwater in exchange
MECHANO-CLAWS for asylum. The clockwork priest cursed her as necrotechs laid bare its inner
RNG POW P+S
0.5 4 10
mechanisms, before its consciousness was finally extinguished. In time she began
to apply her theories to her own form, initiating her slow transformation into a
DAMAGE:5 unique iron lich variant.
FA
BASE:SMALL Mortenebra now manages to serve the lich lords without calling any one of
C
them master. As efforts on the mainland escalated, she spent a great deal of time
ATTACHED [MORTENEBRA] – This model is attached to servicing the war efforts of both Terminus and Asphyxious. But while Asphyxious
Mortenebra. Each warcaster can have only one model/
unit attached to it. has escalated his demands for her services, she has never sworn oaths to him and
DERYLISS 1 remains autonomous.
UNDEAD
COMPANION [MASTER NECROTECH MORTENEBRA] – The master necrotech’s skarlock Deryliss constantly lurks by her side, lending its
This model is included in any army that includes
Master Necrotech Mortenebra. If Mortenebra is
considerable skills wherever she travels. Mortenebra crafted Deryliss soon after
destroyed or removed from play, remove this model she arrived in Cryx, and over the centuries she has refined it into an intelligent
from play. This model is part of Mortenebra’s
battlegroup. aide. Mortenebra has delegated to Deryliss some measure of her authority; the
MAGIC ABILITY [7] creature often speaks in her stead. For decades, Mortenebra has used Deryliss and
• SPELL SLAVE (HACTION OR ATTACK) – This model
must be in its warcaster’s control range to make the
other minions to collect various Orgoth relics, seizing them from old ruins and
Spell Slave special action. When it does, it casts one destroyed adversaries.
of the spells on its warcaster’s card with a COST
of 3 or less. This model cannot cast upkeep spells Her past nearly forgotten, Mortenebra is now entirely a creature of Cryx. Her
or spells with a RNG of SELF or CTRL. When
casting an offensive spell, Spell Slave is a magic specialized knowledge and machine empathy grant her unique insight into
attack. Use this model’s Magic Ability score when
making magic attack rolls.
Cryxian necro-horrors. Mortenebra can synchronize her will with the helljacks at
REPAIR [d3 + 1] (HACTION) – RNG B2B. Target friendly her command to create a terrifying army that moves as a virtual extension of her
Faction construct model. If the model is in range,
remove d3 + 1 damage points from it.
unfathomably complex mind.

TACTICAL TIPS
Magic Ability – Performing a Magic Ability special action or special attack counts as casting a spell.
Spell Slave – This model cannot cast spells if its warcaster is destroyed or removed from play. Spell Slave
does not confer the ability to channel spells as a warcaster.

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CRYX WARCASTER
Mortenebra is the dark mistress of the Cryxian war industry. With her cold and
FOCUS: 7
penetrating mind, she has worked behind the scenes to further the development of
MORTENEBRA 2
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
6 8 6 4 14 17 9 the Nightmare Empire’s necromechanikal horrors. She operates at all times with a
clinical dispassion, commanding her helljacks to slaughter with the same inhuman
CLAW
RNG POW P+S calculus employed in her experimentation.
2 6 14
When Lich Lord Asphyxious established his extensive necrofactorium beneath
DAMAGE:19 the Thornwood, he entrusted Mortenebra with much of the base’s operations,
including interactions with the local cephalyx, with which the complex shared its
WJ FA
BASE:LARGE
+27 C network of tunnels and workshops. When allied forces from Khador and Cygnar
discovered and subsequently destroyed the structure, some of her research was
MORTENEBRA 2
CONSTRUCT
lost in the retreat from the tunnels.
PATHFINDER
UNDEAD For Mortenebra, however, these setbacks were insignificant compared to the
FIELD MARSHAL [SALVAGE] – Warjacks in this model’s limitless opportunities she gained by directly participating in the conflicts on the
battlegroup gain Salvage.
SALVAGE – When a warjack is destroyed while in this
mainland. For too long she had toiled in the factories of Skell, far from the enemies
model’s melee range, remove d6 damage points from of the Nightmare Kingdom and the wars they waged. Now, with the chance to
this model. If the destroyed warjack was a heavy
warjack or a colossal, remove +3 additional damage observe her creations in battle, Mortenebra’s dark mind has been stirred to new
points from this model. heights of exhilaration.
SOUL TAKER: CULL SOUL – This model can gain soul
tokens. When a living enemy model is destroyed within
2˝ of this model, this model gains the destroyed model’s
Driven to seek insights through the crucible of combat, she has continued to
soul token. After this model replenishes its focus during augment her own physical form through iterative reimaginings of her mechanikal
your next Control Phase, replace each soul token with
1 focus point. frame. With each new body, she strives to attain perfection, keeping the spare
STEADY – This model cannot become knocked down. constructs on hand to allow for the quick transition from one to the next as her
CLAW needs change. When preparing for battle, the Numen of Necrogenesis dons an
DAMAGE TYPE: MAGICAL
imposing iron frame so that she can conduct analysis in the midst of combat
FEAT: MECHANISM OF DESTRUCTION without fear of enduring critical damage or, worse, distraction.
Under the dissecting eyes of the Numen of Necrogenesis,
vulnerabilities in the enemy’s defenses become obvious. Though her work has continued within new necrofactoriums established across the
With her superlative guidance the warjacks she commands
work in concert to unerringly find their marks and wreak
Wyrmwall Mountains and elsewhere, Mortenebra spends an increasing amount of
wholesale devastation. time on expeditions seeking new knowledge and resources vital to advancing the
While in Mortenebra’s command range, models in her Cryxian war industry and her own pursuits. Thus it is that she regularly clashes
battlegroup gain Flank [another model in Mortenebra’s
battlegroup]. Mechanism of Destruction lasts for one with the forces of the Convergence of Cyriss, the machine cult to which she once
turn. (When a model with Flank [another model in belonged. In recent years the Convergence has increased its activities exponentially,
Mortenebra’s battlegroup] makes a melee attack against
an enemy model in the melee range of another model in constructing facilities over key locations across western Immoren to harvest the
Mortenebra’s battlegroup, the model with Flank gains
+2 to attack rolls and gains an additional damage die.)
energies of Caen. Mortenebra seeks any opportunity to fight the cult, both to test
her own capabilities and to plunder their technological advancements and adapt
SPELLS COST RNG AOE POW DUR OFF
them to her own use. Those cultists she does not slay outright suffer long, drawn-
ARCANTRIK BOLT 2 10 – 12 * YES out deaths as she disassembles their clockwork bodies within her workshop before
A warjack damaged by this attack becomes stationary
for one round. stripping useful information from their minds.
CURSE OF SHADOWS 3 8 – – UP YES
Target model/unit suffers –2 ARM and cannot make
free strikes. A model can advance through an affected TACTICAL TIPS
model if it has enough movement to move completely
past its base. Fail-Safe – When all its damage boxes have been marked, the warjack is still destroyed as normal.

FAIL-SAFE 2 6 – – UP NO Soul Taker: Cull Soul – A model can have more focus points than its FOCUS as a result of Cull Soul.
Target friendly Faction warjack gains +2 ARM and Remember, if more than one model is eligible to collect a model’s soul token, the closest eligible model
does not suffer the effects of crippled systems. collects it.
LOCOMOTION * 6 – – – NO Steady – Remember, even if a thrown model cannot be knocked down, it must still forfeit its Normal
The spellcaster spends up to 3 focus points to cast Movement or Combat Action if it activates later in a turn it was thrown.
Locomotion. Target warjack in the spellcaster’s
battlegroup immediately advances up to 1˝ for each
focus point spent. A warjack can be targeted by
Locomotion only once per activation.
SPELLPIERCER 2 SELF
CTRL – TURN
NO
While in the spellcaster’s control range, the weapons
of friendly Faction models/units gain Blessed  and
Damage Type: Magical  . Spellpiercer lasts for one turn.

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CRYX WARCASTER

SCAVEROUS 1 FOCUS: 7 FEAT: BLACK GATE SPELLS COST RNG AOE POW DUR OFF
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
6 8 6 4 14 17 7 Through profane rites known by only a few masters FEAST OF WORMS 4 10 4 12 UP
YES
of necromancy, Lord Exhumator Scaverous tears While in the AOE, enemy models suffer
an opening in the shroud between life and death to –2 ARM. When a living enemy model is
AVERNUS release a backlash of foul energies inimical to life. destroyed in the AOE, the spellcaster gains the
RNG POW P+S This unholy surge empowers the magic of death destroyed model’s soul token regardless of the
2 6 14 wielded by his allies while hindering the feeble proximity of other models. The AOE remains in
arcane efforts of his enemies. play as long as upkeep is paid.
DAMAGE:18 While in Scaverous’ control range, friendly ICY GRIP 2 8 – – UP YES
Faction models gain boosted magic attack rolls. Target warrior model/unit without Immunity:
WJ FA When Scaverous casts a spell, reduce the COST Cold  suffers –2 DEF and cannot run or make
BASE:MEDIUM
+27 C of the spell by 1. When an enemy model casts a power attacks or special attacks.
spell while in Scaverous’ control range, increase SOUL HARVESTER 2 6 – – UP NO
SCAVEROUS 1 the COST by 1. Black Gate lasts for one round. When target friendly Faction model/unit
UNDEAD destroys a living enemy model with a melee
SPELLS COST RNG AOE POW DUR OFF attack, the spellcaster gains the destroyed model’s
KNOWLEDGE OF THE DAMNED – When a model in its
control range makes an attack or damage roll, this DEATH WARD 2 6 – – UP NO soul token regardless of the proximity of other
model can spend a soul token to cause that model to Target friendly Faction model/unit gains models.
reroll that roll. Each roll can be rerolled only once due +2 ARM. If an affected warjack is damaged,
choose which column suffers the damage.
TELEKINESIS 2 8 – – – *
to Knowledge of the Damned. Place target model completely within 2˝ of its
Models are not affected while out of formation. current location. When Telekinesis targets an
SOUL TAKER: CULL SOUL – This model can gain soul
tokens. When a living enemy model is destroyed within EXCARNATE 3 10 – 13 – YES enemy model, it is an offensive spell and requires
2˝ of this model, this model gains the destroyed model’s When a living enemy warrior model is boxed a magic attack roll. A model can be placed by
soul token. After this model replenishes its focus during by Excarnate, remove it from play. You can Telekinesis only once per turn.
your next Control Phase, replace each soul token with then add one Grunt to a friendly Faction small-
1 focus point. based undead unit in the spellcaster’s control
AVERNUS range. Place the Grunt in formation and
completely within 3˝ of the spellcaster. The
DAMAGE TYPE: MAGICAL Grunt must forfeit its Combat Action the turn
THRESHER (HATTACK) – This model makes one melee it is put into play.
attack with this weapon against each model in its LOS
that is in this weapon’s melee range. Thresher attacks
are simultaneous.

Soldiers of the Iron Kingdoms hope that if they die in battle, their
suffering will quickly end. Those who fall beneath the reaping
blade of Scaverous, the Lord Exhumator of Cryx, are denied
that final wish. The souls of the dead furnish both ammunition
and fuel for Scaverous. Those slain and cast aside are fortunate
compared to any possessed of special lore, whose skulls and
souls he preserves for horrific necromantic interrogation.
Scaverous has served the Nightmare Empire for centuries.
Bestowed with the gift of undeath for his obsession with and
skillful pursuit of knowledge, Scaverous was put to work first
in the Archive of Skell and later abroad to gather intelligence.
He spent decades specializing in those exacting necromantic
arts required to unbind the tongues of the dead, manifesting
their shades from echoes left on their bones and compelling
them to answer to his questions.
Undead immortality has given Scaverous the potential to
learn every secret that has ever existed. He is willing to pay
any price for that sum of knowledge. His master, Lich Lord
Malathrax, has observed his efforts with approval. Through
carefully inscribed runes and the manipulation of the energies
separating Caen from Urcaen, Scaverous can compel virtually
any spirit to give up its memories. He stands at the forefront
of the uniquely Cryxian discipline of forensic necromancy.
When the Orgoth immolated themselves rather than fall to
that so much of the Orgoth’s terrible occult secrets fell into the
hands of Cryx. When the design of the soul cage was extricated
from the souls of the Orgoth, the power of the Nightmare
Empire grew incalculably. Whenever Lich Lord Malathrax
requires the retrieval of valuable corpses or other well-protected
necromantic items, he sends Scaverous and his helljacks.
Scaverous keeps a number of his favored repositories—the
skulls of his subjects—with him at all times, safely tucked
within his ribcage. He often plots with them, replying to
voices only he can hear. Secretly he longs to gain access to the
skulls of Cryx’s own lich lords, each of whom he knows to
be a trove of accumulated occult lore, though he takes care to
keep such desires hidden.
Scaverous feels no qualms about indulging in carnage, as the
living are utterly uninteresting to him; they cannot be properly
processed until they are dead. Moreover, it is often expedient
to pry secrets from a freshly gathered soul. For him, the pursuit
of knowledge more than justifies any so-called atrocity.
TACTICAL TIPS
Excarnate – The boxed model does not provide a soul or corpse token. The new
Grunt can activate the turn it is put into play.
Feast of Worms – Cull Soul converts tokens gained from Feast of Worms into
focus points.
Soul Harvester – Cull Soul converts these soul tokens to focus points.

Toruk’s armies, Scaverous was sent to assist Terminus in Soul Taker: Cull Soul – A model can have more focus points than its FOCUS as
a result of Cull Soul. Remember, if more than one model is eligible to collect a
ransacking the ruins of Drer Drakkerung. The smoldering model’s soul token, the closest eligible model collects it.
corpses yielded a rich harvest. It was largely through his efforts Thresher – These attacks are not optional.

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 PIRATE QUEEN SKARRE
CRYX SATYXIS WARCASTER
Skarre Ravenmane, called the Pirate Queen, is the bloodthirsty ruler of the Satyxis,
FOCUS: 6
the warrior women of the island of Satyx blighted by ancient dragon blood to
SKARRE 1
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
7 6 7 4 16 15 9 become something more than human. Her ship, the Widower, strikes along the
western coast frequently and without apparent rhyme or reason. Following
TAKKARYX
RNG POW P+S the guidance of mystical omens revealed to her through rites of slaughter and
1 7 13 bloodletting, she braves the storm and lands ashore to deliver panic and grief. For
BLOODWYRM decades anxious mainland admirals and captains entrusted to guard the coastline
RNG POW P+S have tried and failed to predict her movements. Any foolish enough to confront
0.5 3 9
her directly have been destroyed to fuel her legend.
GREAT RACK
RNG POW P+S
Without warning she disgorges undead forces and helljacks from the black hull of
0.5 4 10 her vessel to obliterate any resistance. She withdraws with equal speed and leaves
ruin and chaos as her legacy. Even the Orgoth feared the Satyxis reaver witches.
DAMAGE:16
Few know better than Skarre the power of shed blood, for she is able to invoke
WJ FA
BASE:SMALL
acidic rains and project gouts of hellfire from her fingertips.
+28 C
Sacrifice is vital to Skarre’s dark magic. She carries with her a millennia-old ritual
dagger she uses to drain the energies binding her comrades together—living or
SKARRE 1
SACRIFICIAL STRIKE (HACTION) – RNG CMD. Target
a model in this model’s LOS. If that model is in range, dead, willing or captive—to fuel its enchantments. Alive with stolen essence, the
remove one friendly Faction trooper model within 1˝
of this model from play. The target model suffers an
blade can unleash a powerful curse upon Skarre’s foes. She is swift to employ her
unboostable magical damage roll  with POW equal to dagger to wrack her victims with gut-wrenching pain that leaves behind twisted,
the base ARM of the removed model.
TAKKARYX broken corpses.
DAMAGE TYPE: MAGICAL
Skarre seized dominion over the Satyxis through strength and cunning. Her
LIFE TRADER – When an attack with this weapon
hits, this model can suffer 1 damage point to gain an bloodline is famed among them, as her mother ruled before her, but for the Satyxis
additional die on the damage roll against the model hit.
Life Trader can be used only once per attack. the right to lead is proven in battle, not inherited. Even as a youth she took to the
BLOODWYRM waves and dominated her kind through the power of her magic and the strength
DAMAGE TYPE: MAGICAL of her will. She has the power to see patterns in the spray of freshly spilled blood,
LIFE DRINKER – When it destroys a living enemy
model with this weapon, immediately after the attack is visions granted by sacrifice and pain.
resolved this model can remove d3 damage points.
GREAT RACK She has made a point of destroying any who would dare plot against her. Cryxian
KNOCKDOWN – When a model is hit by an attack with intrigues have occasionally caught her in the subtle and dangerous games of the
this weapon, it becomes knocked down.
lich lords, who view her as an effective weapon and a living pawn. Her true loyalty
FEAT: BLOOD MAGIC has always been to the Dragonfather, not to any single lich lord.
As the dark queen of the Broken Coast, Skarre Ravenmane
wields her natural powers of the ancient, island-born black Skarre reads portents and auguries in every kill and claims Lord Toruk speaks to
magic with ease. She hesitates at nothing, even sacrificing her
own blood to imbue her followers with dark power to enhance her through the entrails of her victims. Through these signs she steers the Widower
their abilities. to private ports of call to trade blood, steal coin, and sell depravity. Children cling
Skarre immediately suffers any number of damage
points. For each damage point suffered as a result of tightly to their mothers when the fog thickens along the Broken Coast, for the
Blood Magic, one friendly Faction model currently dreaded pirate queen may be hiding within.
in her control range gains +5 STR and ARM for
one round. This model cannot spend focus points to
reduce this damage.
TACTICAL TIPS
SPELLS COST RNG AOE POW DUR OFF Sacrificial Strike – This special action is not an attack.
BACKLASH 3 8 – – UP YES
When target enemy warjack that is part of a battlegroup
is damaged, its controller suffers 1 damage point.
BLOOD RAIN 3 8 3 12 – YES
Blood Rain causes corrosion damage  . Models hit
suffer the Corrosion continuous effect 
DARK GUIDANCE 4 SELF
CTRL – TURN
NO
While in the spellcaster’s control range, friendly Faction
models gain an additional die on their melee attack rolls
this turn.
HELLFIRE 3 10 – 14 – YES
Models disabled by Hellfire cannot make a Tough roll.
Models boxed by Hellfire are removed from play.
RITUAL SACRIFICE 2 6 – – * NO
Remove target friendly warrior model from play. Skarre
gains d6 additional focus points at the start of her
next activation. Skarre can gain the benefit of Ritual
Sacrifice only once per round.

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CRYX SATYXIS WARCASTER

SKARRE 2 FOCUS: 7 TAKKARYX SPELLS COST RNG AOE POW DUR OFF
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
DAMAGE TYPE: MAGICAL BACKLASH 3 8 – – UP YES
7 6 7 5 16 15 9
LIFE TRADER – When an attack with this weapon When target enemy warjack that is part of a
hits, this model can suffer 1 damage point to gain battlegroup is damaged, its controller suffers 1
HAND CANNON an additional die on the damage roll against the damage point.
RNG ROF AOE POW model hit. Life Trader can be used only once per
12 1 — 12 BLACK SPOT 3 8 – – UP YES
attack. Target enemy warrior model/unit suffers
–2 DEF. When a friendly Faction model destroys
GREAT RACK FEAT: FATE WEAVER one or more affected models with a basic
RNG POW P+S The Queen of the Broken Coast knows the deepest melee or ranged attack during its activation,
0.5 4 10 secrets of blood magic, sacrificial rites, and immediately after the attack is resolved it can
blasphemous rituals that can twist and pull the make one additional melee or ranged attack.
GUN BLADE very strands of fate. She has learned to pluck those Attacks gained from Black Spot cannot generate
RNG POW P+S strands binding souls to their destinies to shield her additional attacks from Black Spot.
0.5 3 9 allies from harm and to render those who oppose her BLOOD RAIN 3 8 3 12 – YES
ineffectual. Blood Rain causes corrosion damage  . Models
TAKKARYX Skarre immediately suffers up to 5 damage hit suffer the Corrosion continuous effect  .
RNG POW P+S points. This model cannot spend focus points DEATH WARD 2 6 – – UP NO
1 7 13 to reduce this damage. For each damage point Target friendly Faction model/unit gains
she suffers as a result of Fate Weaver, one model +2 ARM. If an affected warjack is damaged,
currently in her control range can be affected by choose which column suffers the damage.
DAMAGE:16
Fate Weaver. An affected friendly model cannot Models are not affected while out of formation.
be targeted by charges and gains +5 DEF for
WJ FA one round. An affected enemy model suffers –5 SOUL STRIKE 3 10 – 12 – YES
BASE:SMALL When a living model is directly hit and destroyed
+26 C to attack rolls for one round. This model cannot
spend focus points to reduce this damage. by Soul Strike, after resolving the attack you can
SKARRE 2 choose one model within 4˝ of the destroyed
SPELLS COST RNG AOE POW DUR OFF model. That model suffers a damage roll with a
BLOOD TRADE – This model can upkeep spells by POW equal to the ARM of the destroyed model.
suffering 1 damage point per spell instead of spending ADMONITION 2 6 – – UP NO
This additional damage roll is not considered to
focus. When an enemy model advances and ends have been caused by an attack.
FIELD MARSHAL [FUTURE SIGHT] – Warjacks in this its movement within 6˝ of target model in the
model’s battlegroup gain Future Sight. spellcaster’s battlegroup, the affected model can
immediately advance up to 3˝, then Admonition
FUTURE SIGHT – This model can boost attack and
expires. The affected model cannot be targeted by
damage rolls after rolling.
free strikes during this movement.
GREAT RACK
KNOCKDOWN – When a model is hit by an attack with
this weapon, it becomes knocked down.

Not long ago, Skarre Ravenmane was only an instrument
of fate carried in the swirling currents of destiny, but the
momentous events that have caught her up have given her
perspective into the occult webs that entangle every soul.
Her abilities have placed the Queen of the Broken Coast at
the fore of Cryx’s ongoing wars as she sows devastation
along the shores of Immoren.
Skarre stood at the center of the tumultuous battles between
lich lords that began with the destruction of Lich Lord
Daeamortus, led to the ascension of Asphyxious to that rank,
and concluded with the titanic clash between Asphyxious
and Terminus at Garrodh. As Asphyxious was scheming to
augment his own power at the expense of Cryx and Lord
Toruk, Skarre alone realized the true objective of his plans
and acted to intercede. She succeeded in warning Lich Lord
Daeamortus of the threat, but he proved too weak to thwart
Asphyxious and was destroyed. Skarre joined Terminus
when he marched on Temple Garrodh in the Thornwood to
put an end to Asphyxious’ grandiose ambitions. Although
Terminus’ forces ultimately triumphed, they won at great cost:
in defeat Asphyxious invoked a spiteful revenge that banished
Terminus from Caen even as the temple began to collapse.
Tremendous energies exploded from the crumbling Orgoth
temple. Surrounded by devastation, in a place where the
walls between life and death were stretched thinnest, Skarre
experienced a rush of insight and power. She could trace
the individual strands of destiny connecting the souls of the
living and the dead in an ever-changing tapestry. She also
saw the means to restore Terminus and repair the plans of
the Dragonfather jeopardized by the clash between lich
lords. This vision also allowed her to preserve herself as the
structure imploded and began to collapse.
Soon thereafter, Skarre combined her sorcery with the magic
of the Witch Coven of Garlghast to open a portal between
worlds, returning Terminus from his supernatural exile.
Terminus accepted Skarre as his vassal and entrusted her
with the command of the entire Cryxian fleet. She now has
all the resources of a lich lord at her disposal as she leads an
army of Satyxis, revenants, black ogrun, thralls, and helljacks
in merciless destruction. No coastal city or village within
Khador, Ord, Cygnar, or even the Protectorate of Menoth
remains safe from her bloody gaze.
Skarre is a scourge all along the western seaboard. Auguries
of blood and shadow guide her hand, and with singular
vision and inhuman ruthlessness she commands the Black
Fleet toward whichever terrible destiny will best serve her
and the Dragonfather. The Queen of the Broken Coast may be
a creature of flesh and blood, but she stands on equal footing
with immortals as she manipulates the tides of war.

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CRYX WARCASTER

STURGIS 2 FOCUS: 6
TACTICAL TIPS
BLADE (RIGHT) Convection – A warjack cannot exceed normal
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
DAMAGE TYPE: MAGICAL
6 6 7 5 15 16 8 focus limits as a result of Convection.
DEATH STRIKE – If this attack destroys a living or
undead model, after resolving the attack choose a Soul Taker: Soul Thief – Remember, if more than
HAND CANNON model within 4˝ of this model. The chosen model one model is eligible to collect a model’s soul token,
RNG ROF AOE POW suffers a damage roll with a POW equal to the the closest eligible model collects it.
12 1 — 12 STR of the model destroyed by the attack. Teleport – This model cannot be placed on or in an
FEAT: DEAD ON ARRIVAL obstruction or in impassable terrain as a result of
BLADE (LEFT)
Teleport.
RNG POW P+S Amid a roiling maelstrom of necromantic darkness,
2 7 13 the former commander Dalin Sturgis pulls the
enemies around him closer before unleashing a surge
BLADE (RIGHT) of entropic energy. The death energies from each
RNG POW P+S of the fallen empowers his helljacks to finish any
2 7 13 remaining foes.
Enemy non-warcaster, non-warlock models in
DAMAGE:18 Sturgis’ control range are pushed 3˝ directly
toward Sturgis in the order you choose. Then
enemy models within 3˝ of Sturgis suffer a
WJ FA
BASE:SMALL POW 12 magical damage roll  . These damage
+31 C
rolls are simultaneous. For each model destroyed
by Dead on Arrival, you can allocate 1 focus
STURGIS 2 point to a warjack in Sturgis’ battlegroup in his
UNDEAD control range.
CHAIN ATTACK: DARK SHROUD – If this model hits the
same target with both its initial melee attacks, after SPELLS COST RNG AOE POW DUR OFF
resolving the attacks this model gains Dark Shroud for BLOOD RAIN 3 8 3 12 – YES
one turn. (While in the melee range of a model with Blood Rain causes corrosion damage  . Models
Dark Shroud, enemy models suffer –2 ARM.) hit suffer the Corrosion continuous effect  .
RELENTLESS CHARGE – While advancing as part of a
CONVECTION 2 10 – 12 – YES
charge, this model gains Pathfinder  . When Convection destroys a living enemy
REVERSAL – When a model misses this model with a model, you can give 1 focus point to a warjack in
charge or a power attack, the attacking model becomes the spellcaster’s battlegroup that is in its control
knocked down. range.
SNAP STRIKE – This model can make one additional
OCCULTATION 2 6 – – UP NO
attack with each melee weapon for each focus point Target friendly Faction model/unit gains
spent to make additional attacks. Stealth  . Models are not affected while out of
BLADE (LEFT) formation.
DAMAGE TYPE: MAGICAL PARASITE 3 8 – – UP YES
SOUL TAKER: SOUL THIEF – This model can gain soul Target model/unit suffers –3 ARM and the
tokens. When this model destroys a living enemy model spellcaster gains +1 ARM.
with an attack with this weapon, this model gains
TELEPORT 2 SELF – – – NO
the destroyed model’s soul token. When this model
Place the spellcaster anywhere completely within
replenishes its focus during your next Control Phase,
6˝ of its current location, then its activation ends.
replace each soul token on it with 1 focus point.

Much of the Nightmare Empire’s power derives from the
losses of its rivals. Those who face Cryx are forever haunted
by the sight of their brothers and sisters in arms resurrected
in undeath to do battle against them, their corpses twisted
by the grotesque toil of the necrotechs. While the desecration
of the bodies of fallen soldiers is a horrific sacrilege, it pales
in comparison with the capture and enslavement of an
immortal soul. Such was the fate of Dalin Sturgis, a beloved
hero of Cygnar.
A renowned warcaster in the Cygnaran military, Sturgis was
slain by the Butcher of Khardov during an operation deep
within the Thornwood. His remains were recovered by
Cryxians scouring the forest for its bounty of corpses and then
brought before Lich Lord Malathrax. The lich lord performed
ancient and foul rites to corrupt Sturgis’ flesh and capture his
lingering spirit, wielding necromantic powers to reanimate
Sturgis’ body and poison his mind against the living. Sturgis
now serves Malathrax in his undead state, venturing forth to
handle those situations that require a keen blade rather than
the subtler skills of the Cryxian spymaster.
Soldiers whom Sturgis once led in battle now fall beneath the
strokes of his bladed staff or wither under his necromantic
powers. By concealing himself in a cloak of shadow and
teleporting vast distances in the blink of an eye, Sturgis
navigates the battlefield with ease. In life he was not only a
fierce combatant but also a skilled tactician. In death, he has
become a formidable weapon wielded by the lich lords.
Much of Sturgis’ free will and personality were subverted
by his undead state, though a portion of his former self
remains buried within the confines of his mind. The few past
acquaintances who have encountered the former commander
are appalled by the corruption of such a noble man. Some have
tried to appeal to the virtue he maintained in life, but in each
case these individuals have been mocked and slain. Sturgis
gives their deaths only a passing thought, recognizing their
faces the moment before striking them down and pushing the
memory from his mind. Yet these flashes of memory may hint
at the fact that Sturgis will not always remain a puppet, for
his will even in death is strong.

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CRYX WARCASTER

TERMINUS 1 FOCUS: 6 SOUL TAKER: CULL SOUL – This model can gain SPELLS COST RNG AOE POW DUR OFF
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD soul tokens. When a living enemy model is
6 9 7 5 14 18 10 ANNIHILATION 4 10 3 10 – YES
destroyed within 2˝ of this model, this model
Models hit suffer a POW 10 damage roll. Models
gains the destroyed model’s soul token. After
destroyed by Annihilation are removed from play
DRAGON FIRE this model replenishes its focus during your next
and do not generate corpse tokens. When a living
RNG ROF AOE POW Control Phase, replace each soul token with 1
enemy model is destroyed by Annihilation, the
SP 10 1 — 14 focus point.
spellcaster gains the destroyed model’s soul token
DRAGON FIRE regardless of the proximity of other models.
DOOMSAYER CONTINUOUS EFFECT: CORROSION HELLFIRE 3 10 – 14 – YES
RNG POW P+S DAMAGE TYPE: CORROSION Models disabled by Hellfire cannot make
2 7 16 DOOMSAYER a Tough roll. Models boxed by Hellfire are
DAMAGE TYPE: MAGICAL removed from play.
SCYTHING CLAW MALEDICTION 2 SELF – UP NO
RNG POW P+S SCYTHING CLAW *
While within 2˝ of the spellcaster, enemy models
0.5 5 14 CRITICAL PITCH – On a critical hit against a suffer –2 DEF and ARM.
model with an equal or smaller base, the model
hit can be thrown d6˝ directly away from this RAVAGER 2 6 – – TURN NO
DAMAGE:20 Target warjack in the spellcaster’s battlegroup
model. The model thrown does not deviate. The
POW of collateral damage is equal to the STR gains Berserk for one turn. While affected by
WJ FA of this model. Ravager, a model cannot make Chain Attacks.
BASE:LARGE (When a model with Berserk destroys one or
+26 C
FEAT: DRAGON’S CALL more models with a melee attack during its
Combat Action, immediately after the attack
TERMINUS 1 When Terminus calls upon Toruk’s unholy name, he is resolved it must make one additional melee
ASSAULT unleashes a dreadful howl that bathes the battlefield attack against another model in its melee range.)
FLIGHT in malignant energy. The cacophony of evil devours
UNDEAD the souls of the fallen while strengthening his own
SACRIFICIAL PAWN [UNDEAD MODEL] – When this towering iron frame.
model is directly hit by an enemy ranged attack, you When a living enemy model is destroyed in
can have one friendly, non-incorporeal undead model Terminus’ control range, Terminus gains the
within 3˝ of it directly hit instead. That model is destroyed model’s soul token. Terminus gains
automatically hit and suffers all damage and effects. +1 ARM for each soul token on him. Dragon’s
SHADOW OF DEATH – While in this model’s command Call lasts for one round.
range, friendly undead Faction models gain Tough  .

Lord Terminus is the architect of a thousand plots and hidden
wars. Towering over others who serve in the Dragon Lord’s
shadow, this twisted abomination of blighted bone and
hell-wrought iron has methodically fought in service to his
master’s ambitions for centuries.
Long ago, he who would come to be known as Terminus
commanded the Dragonfather’s legions at the fortress called
Dragon’s Roost, Cryx’s northernmost fortress and bastion
for the fleet. It was there that Terminus began to internalize
his master’s transfiguring blight. His body slowly swelled
to immense size, and wings erupted from his back, tearing
and distending skin and bone. As his flesh failed him,
necrosurgeons replaced the cankerous portions of his body
with necrotech and iron; no semblance of his previous form
remained by the time Cryx launched its assault against
the remnants of the Orgoth invasion at Garlghast Island.
He joined the attack as an iron lich of already fearsome
reputation.
In the aftermath of Drer Drakkerung’s obliteration, Terminus
rose to prominence in Toruk’s service. Together with
Scaverous, another iron lich, Terminus led efforts to rip secrets
from captured Orgoth, living and dead, and he worked to
apply that knowledge to rebuilding Cryx’s devastated fleet
and armies. Based on this lore, he oversaw the construction
of the first Cryxian blackships. When the Dragonfather
witnessed the fruits of Terminus’ many labors, he granted
him the title of lich lord, elevating him to replace one of those
lost in the great battle.
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With legions of thralls under his command, Lich Lord
Terminus devoted himself to the conquest of the mainland.
His agents throughout the Iron Kingdoms gathered
information and searched for Toruk’s hated brood. Terminus
conspired with his counterpart Daeamortus to orchestrate
the Scharde Invasions of 584–588 AR. While Daeamortus
established secret strongholds on the mainland, Terminus’
forces tested the defenses of the Iron Kingdoms, seeking
to lay the foundation for their eventual destruction. It is
a testament to Terminus’ ingenious plans that it wasn’t
until 605 AR, during the Llaelese War, that Cryx’s enemies
understood how the black fleet had managed to plant
invasion forces so deep inside the mainland.
Such is the strength of his dark majesty that Terminus can
inspire even the dead. He leads hordes of thralls equally
eager to kill or sacrifice their own existences in his accursed
name. Though a meticulous strategist, Terminus transforms
into a killing tempest on the battlefield. Gripped with
unmitigated bloodlust and charging ahead of his legions, he
is an unstoppable scythe consuming the souls of all who fall
by his blade.
TACTICAL TIPS
Annihilation – Cull Soul converts tokens gained from Annihilation into focus
points.
Dragon’s Call – Remember, if more than one model is eligible to collect a
model’s soul token, the closest eligible model collects it. Cull Soul converts
tokens gained from Dragon’s Call into focus points.
Soul Taker: Cull Soul – A model can have more focus points than its FOCUS as
a result of Cull Soul. Remember, if more than one model is eligible to collect a
model’s soul token, the closest eligible model collects it.
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CRYX WARCASTER
Few outside the Nightmare Empire imagine the wars of mortals mean so little to the
FOCUS: 7
Dragonfather. They believe the armies of Cryx march forth with human motivations
VENETHRAX 1
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
6 8 8 4 15 17 9 such as greed or love of bloodshed or carnage for its own sake, but these conflicts
are as meaningless as the warring of ant hills to Toruk and his lich lords. Ultimately,
WYRMBANE
RNG POW P+S only one purpose drives these immortals: the destruction of Toruk’s draconic brood,
2 7 15 by which Toruk can once again be made whole.
DAMAGE:18 In preparation for Lord Toruk and his undying horde striking against the treacherous
dragons he spawned millennia ago, one of the twelve lich lords has always been
WJ FA
BASE:MEDIUM
+26 C charged with the collection of draconic lore, studying in particular rumors of the
dragons’ movements and actions. Lich Lord Venethrax has long held this office, but
VENETHRAX 1
UNDEAD
he was not the first to do so; his predecessor’s tenure ended, only two centuries after
DISMEMBER – When this model hits a warbeast with a the founding of Cryx, beneath the talons of the dragon Blighterghast. Venethrax, in
melee attack, roll an additional damage die.
contrast, has proven a tenacious adversary for the dragons, and he has dedicated
FIELD MARSHAL [COUNTERCHARGE] – Warjacks in this
model’s battlegroup gain Countercharge. (When an fourteen centuries of his undying existence to Toruk’s wars.
enemy model advances and ends its movement within
6˝ of a model with Countercharge and in its LOS, the Lich Lord Venethrax is supremely well suited to root out and destroy the
model with Countercharge can immediately charge it.
A model can use Countercharge only once per round Dragonfather’s dark progeny. He is given to an obsessive, sometimes narrow
and not while engaged.) focus on his duties, and his every thought is devoted to details of the draconic
SOUL TAKER: CULL SOUL – This model can gain soul
tokens. When a living enemy model is destroyed within war. His web of agents is scattered across the mainland, listening for whispers
2˝ of this model, this model gains the destroyed model’s of the dragons and their plans. His minions have gathered the corrupt lore of
soul token. After this model replenishes its focus during
your next Control Phase, replace each soul token with ancient Morrdh, studied tales of the dragon Ethrunbal’s defeat in Ios, and tracked
1 focus point.
Everblight’s Legion as it has carved a bloody path across western Immoren.
WYRMBANE
DAMAGE TYPE: MAGICAL Venethrax has conducted scores of operations on the mainland over the centuries.
ERUPTION OF ASH – If a model is boxed by an attack
made with this weapon, center a 3˝ AOE cloud effect He has overseen the necropsy of countless blighted creatures and dispatched
on the boxed model and then remove that model from hundreds of loathsome spawn. Before the Orgoth landed in Immoren, he led a
play. The AOE is a hazard that remains in play for one
round. Enemy models in the AOE when it was put in horde of thralls to root out one of Toruk’s progeny, Halfaug, after it was wounded
play are hit and suffer a POW 12 fire damage roll  . in an earlier battle with Nyss and northmen. Although Venethrax was thwarted at
Enemy models entering or ending their activations in
the AOE suffer a POW 12 fire damage roll  . Eruption the last by the wyrm’s resilience and tenacity and by the annihilation of the rest
of Ash damage rolls cannot be boosted. of his army, he nearly managed to best it. No other mortal-born creature walking
FEAT: VENGEANCE OF THE DRAGONFATHER Caen can claim to have personally confronted a dragon and fought it to a draw.
By unleashing a wave of draconic radiance Venethrax can
prevent both machine and beast from drawing strength from Recent years have seen an acceleration in plans against Toruk’s offspring as efforts
their masters. on the mainland have escalated. Late in 608 AR, Venethrax led a risky operation to
Enemy models cannot allocate focus points to or leech
fury points from models in Venethrax’s control range. secure the disembodied athanc of a defeated dragon champion named Nidoboros
Vengeance of the Dragonfather lasts for one round. that had long lain hidden below the northern city of Hellspass. The lure of this
SPELLS COST RNG AOE POW DUR OFF prize stirred great powers to action—the blackclads of the Circle Orboros,
BLOOD RAIN 3 8 3 12 – YES Everblight’s growing Legion, the nation of Cygnar, and ultimately Blighterghast’s
Blood Rain causes corrosion damage  . Models hit dragon alliance. Western Immoren was nearly torn asunder by the battles between
suffer the Corrosion continuous effect  .
DEADWEIGHT 2 8 – 12 * YES
these forces, during which several Cryxian armies were obliterated. In the end the
When Deadweight destroys an enemy living or undead athanc of Nidoboros was lost, but Lord Toruk annihilated the dragon Charsaug
model, choose an enemy model within 2˝ of it. The
chosen model must forfeit either its Normal Movement and consumed his athanc. This great victory would never have occurred if not for
or its Combat Action during its next activation, as its the tireless efforts of Lich Lord Venethrax.
controller chooses.
LAMENTATION 3 SELF
CTRL – UP NO In the aftermath of this clash many of the dragons were injured, including Lord
When an enemy model casts a spell while in the
spellcaster’s control range, double the COST of the spell. Toruk himself. It falls to Venethrax to bring additional victories to Toruk, pursuing
Additionally, enemy models must pay double to upkeep the Dragonfather’s wounded progeny into their lairs until all are defeated. As
spells on models/units in the spellcaster’s control range.
MORTALITY 3 10 – – RND YES
each of the lich lords scrambles to prove his worth to his master, Venethrax stands
Target model/unit suffers –2 DEF and ARM, loses at the forefront of this final war, poised to commit Cryx’s might against its only
Tough  , and cannot have damage removed from it.
Mortality lasts for one round. meaningful enemies.
TERMINAL VELOCITY 3 SELF
CTRL – TURN
NO
Warjacks in the spellcaster’s battlegroup that are TACTICAL TIPS
currently in its control range can charge or make power
attacks without spending focus and gain boosted melee Deadweight – Remember, a model that forfeits its Combat Action cannot run.
attack rolls against living models. When an affected Eruption of Ash – Because the boxed model is removed from play before being destroyed, it does not
model targets a living model with a charge or slam
generate a soul or corpse token.
power attack, it gains +2˝ movement. Terminal Velocity
lasts for one turn. Soul Taker: Cull Soul – A model can have more focus points than its FOCUS as a result of Cull Soul.
Remember, if more than one model is eligible to collect a model’s soul token, the closest eligible model
collects it.
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CRYX WARCASTERS & CRYX SOLO

HELLEANA 1, MORGAEN 1 & SELENE 1 FOCUS: *
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
6 4 5 4 16 13 8
RITUAL BLADE
RNG POW P+S
0.5 3 7
DAMAGE: 8 EACH
WJ FA
BASE:SMALL
+26 C Murderous gains an additional die on melee
HELLEANA 1, MORGAEN 1 & SELENE 1
ARCANE NEXUS – When this model casts a spell, the
Egregore is the spell’s point of origin. This model
must have LOS to the target, but the Egregore does
not. All LOS modifiers are based on this model’s LOS.
This model can channel spells normally.
COVEN – The Witch Coven of Garlghast is made up
of Helleana, Morgaen, and Selene. The Coven shares
a single focus pool, and Coven models do not receive
focus individually. The Coven’s base FOCUS is three
times the number of models in the Coven that are
in play. When the Coven replenishes its focus, the
Egregore receives those focus points. The Coven’s
control range is measured from the Egregore. Any
Coven model in the Coven’s control range can spend
focus points on the Egregore. Effects that reduce or
remove focus never affect the Egregore. The Coven
can use its feat only once. The Coven counts as a
single warcaster when calculating Field Allowance.
The Coven can have up to one attached model, which
is attached to the Coven, not to an individual
model in the Coven. The Coven can have only
one of each of its upkeep spells in play at any
time.
PERFECT CONJUNCTION – A Perfect Conjunction
is established any time the Egregore is
completely within the triangular area between
all three Witches. During a Perfect Conjunction,
magic attack rolls made by one of the Witches
are automatically boosted.
RITUAL BLADE
DAMAGE TYPE: MAGICAL
FEAT: NIGHTFALL
The Witches of Garlghast are mistresses of
misdirection and shadow capable of calling upon a
darkness so complete it obscures the sun itself. They
can turn day into the blackest night to shroud their
company behind an umbral veil of safety.
While in the Coven’s control range, enemy
models suffer –2 MAT and RAT and their LOS is
reduced to 5˝. Nightfall lasts for one round.
SPELLS COST RNG AOE POW DUR OFF
CURSE OF SHADOWS 3 8 – – UP YES
Target model/unit suffers –2 ARM and cannot
make free strikes. A model can advance through
an affected model if it has enough movement to
move completely past its base.
SPELLS COST RNG AOE POW DUR OFF
GHOST WALK 2 6 – – TURN NO
Target friendly Faction model/unit gains Ghostly
for one turn. (A model with Ghostly can advance
through terrain and obstacles without penalty
and can advance through obstructions if it has
enough movement to move completely past
them. It cannot be targeted by free strikes.)
INFERNAL MACHINE 2 6 – – UP NO
Target warjack in the spellcaster’s battlegroup
gains Murderous and +2 SPD. (A model with
attack rolls against warrior models.)
OCCULTATION 2 6 – – UP NO
Target friendly Faction model/unit gains
Stealth  . Models are not affected while out of
formation.
STYGIAN ABYSS 3 10 – 12 * YES
On a critical hit, the model hit suffers Blind for
one round. (A model suffering Blind cannot
make ranged or magic attacks, suffers –4 MAT
and DEF, and cannot run, charge, or make slam
or trample power attacks. It must forfeit either its
Normal Movement or Combat Action during its
next activation. Blind can be shaken.)
VEIL OF MISTS 2 CTRL 4 – UP NO
Place a 4˝ AOE cloud effect anywhere completely
within the spellcaster’s control range. This AOE
does not block friendly Faction models’ LOS.
While in the AOE, friendly Faction models gain
Pathfinder  and can move through obstructions
and other models if they have enough movement
to move completely past them.

The Witches of Garlghast were discovered in the summer of
593 AR by the Cryxian pirate vessel Aldibraxis. Responding
to a signal fire on a desolate stretch of beach, the crew found
three girls of no more than thirteen with a mysterious and
ominous artifact: a floating sphere of shadow and blackened
iron. The young women gave their names as Helleana,
Morgaen, and Selene. With minds clouded by the sorcerous
touch of the three strange girls, the sailors welcomed them
aboard and unquestioningly set course for Blackwater.
The sisters were left alone, for the crew feared the terrible
relic traveling with them. It was not merely the way the
spiked sphere, called the Egregore, seemed to devour light
or the way shadows played across its pitted surface that so
disturbed the crewmen. Rather, it was the way the sisters
tenderly whispered to it.
When the Aldibraxis dropped anchor, the sisters made
their way to Toruk’s Black Temple in Skell and brazenly
demanded council with Lich Lord Terminus. The lich lord
agreed, intrigued by their audacity. The sisters hailed him as
“Conqueror,” “Ravager of Men,” and “Lord of the Blighted
Seas.” They claimed they had come at the appointed hour to
see the true destiny of Cryx realized. Impressed with their
conviction and sensing the power of the artifact to which
they were bound, the lich lord tested their prophetic visions
and found they had a genuine talent for augury. He bound
them to the eternal service of Lord Toruk.
When Terminus later led his forces in the conquest of the
mainland, he called for his coven to join him. He quickly
discovered the usefulness of these sisters as they assisted
him time and again in overcoming the threats of both mortal
armies and the forces of his Cryxian rivals. Without the Witch
Coven, Asphyxious might have succeeded in permanently
banishing Terminus to the hellish wilds of Urcaen when they
clashed at the Battle of Garrodh.
On numerous missions for their master, the Witches of
Garlghast have ravaged settlements throughout the kingdoms
of western Immoren. Small, isolated communities have not
only been vanquished but wiped completely from existence:
wells are left poisoned, buildings burned to the ground, and
ashes of destruction buried. Relief forces would find villagers
impaled on stakes or strung up in trees, still moaning for the
release of death. With such tactics, the witches have often
won battles before the first blow was struck.
Their constant companion, the mysterious Egregore, extends
their magical power and allows them to pool their arcane
strength and command helljacks from great distances. A
shadowy device of rune-covered iron, it leaks thick tendrils
of darkness that surround and cling to the coven, moving as
though sentient. Whether from Morrdh, the Orgoth, or some
other dark source, the Egregore’s origins are unknown.
TACTICAL TIPS
Coven – The Witch Coven of Garlghast is not a unit, and models in the Coven
are independent models. The Coven can allocate focus points to warjacks in its
control range normally. The Coven can have only one Skarlock Thrall.

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 The sisters and the Egregore share a strange but undeniable bond. The thoughts
of one are known to all; they share one life essence and continually whisper in
EGREGORE 1
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
6 1 1 1 13 17 — forgotten tongues to each other. The witches are seldom separated, and their powers
are tied to their interwoven relationship. Wrapped in darkness and surrounded by
FA
C
BASE:MEDIUM keening winds, their power reaches its true apex when the sisters ritualistically
encircle the Egregore and enter a perfect conjunction.
EGREGORE 1
CONSTRUCT Guided by dark portents, the sisters are instinctive military commanders adept
at obfuscation and misdirection. The witches’ formidable power and their many
PATHFINDER
STEALTH
BLACK MANTLE – While B2B with this model, friendly successes have ensured that despite the enigma surrounding the Egregore and
Faction models gain Stealth  .
their connection to it, none dare question them. That they are loyal and deliver
CIRCULAR VISION – Models never gain a back strike
bonus against this model. victories is enough. Lich Lord Terminus owes several of his greatest successes to
COMPANION [WITCH COVEN OF GARLGHAST] – This their prognostications.
model is included in any army that includes the Witch
Coven of Garlghast. If the Witch Coven of Garlghast
is destroyed or removed from play, remove this model The Witches of Garlghast are frightening manipulators. They control their forces at a
from play. This model is part of the Witch Coven of distance and unleash torrents of murderous arcane power to devastate enemies before
Garlghast’s battlegroup.
STEADY – This model cannot become knocked down.
them. These powerful occultists shift the world toward a shadowy future only they
SYMPATHETIC LINK – When this model would suffer fully perceive. Their dark vision is a new plague on western Immoren; in the days to
damage, assign that damage to one or more Witches,
divided as you choose. A Witch cannot be assigned
come this spreading blight shall become a shroud of darkness no light can pierce.
more damage points than she has unmarked damage
boxes. This model does not suffer that damage.
TACTICAL TIPS
Steady – Remember, even if a thrown model cannot be knocked down, it must still forfeit its Normal
Movement or Combat Action if it activates later in a turn it was thrown.
Sympathetic Link – Assigning this damage is not optional.

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OF CRYX

Upon witnessing the first steam-driven constructs that

emerged from the foundries of the mainland, Cryx moved
Origin & Design
The origins of Cryxian ’jacks are difficult to pin down, due
quickly to claim the secrets of their design. Their spies
in large part to their unique genesis. Unlike the warjacks of
infiltrated the Iron Kingdoms—then watched and waited.
the mainland, which derive from iterative design processes
When the greatest mechanikal minds of each generation
and emerge uniformly constructed from large production
succumbed to age and happenstance, Cryx was there to
facilities, Cryxian helljacks and bonejacks represent distinct
disinter and collect their remains. Relying upon forensic
conceptions belonging to their creators. While modeled on
necromancy, the agents of the Nightmare Empire ripped the
templates for specific weapon configurations, each is the
knowledge of warjack manufacture from the minds of the
product of inspiration and mad genius, painstakingly cobbled
dead. They brought back to Cryx the foundational principles
together by a skilled necrotech in his workshop. Moreover,
upon which the Dragonfather’s empire would build its own
the qualities of the warjacks’ production and design can be
unique dark mechanika.
challenging to pinpoint even when examining the salvage of
A fusion of mechanikal design and dark occult practices, multiple machines constructed by a single necrotech. Unless
Cryxian necrotechnology has evolved over the centuries they are destroyed in battle, bonejacks and helljacks tend
in isolation, distinct from the mechanika of the mainland to operate in the field for centuries, during which time the
despite their shared origin. By integrating the remains and design philosophy of the necrotech who built them could
sometimes the spirits of the dead within their mechanikal undergo radical shifts.
designs, necrotechs can utilize the residual energies of
The most vital element of any Cryxian warjack is its
annihilation and pain to enhance their machines. All aspects
cortex. Although the basic principles were stolen from the
of necrotechnology draw upon the power of death, and
mainland, Cryxian cortexes incorporate different materials
these necromantic materials augment that occult process.
and necromechanikal fusion. Like the bonejack or helljack
Mainland arcane engineers view the necrotechs’ creations
itself, each cortex is unique; no single codified process exists
as vile corruptions of their mechanikal craft, but in Cryx
by which they are assembled, though all are inscribed with
necromechanika is considered a refinement of an otherwise
glyphs that bear similarities to those that animate corpses
limited fabrication process.
as thralls. The dark rites that grant these cortexes their
animating spark instill a powerful cunning in ’jacks and
allow them to react quickly in unexpected situations. With
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concern, as the warjack will likely become more brutish and
bestial as it degrades—an advantage much to be desired,
according to Cryxians.
The intellect bestowed by such a cortex is animalistic
and predatory, with a burning hatred for all life. Cryxian
warjacks resemble unnatural beasts with the instinct to hunt
and kill but lacking the ability to sate that savage hunger by
feasting on what they slaughter. The death lust of a bonejack
or helljack cannot be slaked, only restrained or encouraged
in turn.
Elements of helljack design can be traced to the blasphemous
Librum Mekanecrus, which allegedly details the creation
of the Deathjack. Bipedal helljacks such as the Slayer and
Reaper in particular employ a similar design aesthetic.
Master Necrotech Verrik Kurr was said to have been directly
influenced by the Librum’s forbidden secrets when he created
the first Seethers, and the tome’s wisdom has informed the
work of countless other necrotechs.
While most Cryxian warjacks utilize similar chassis designs,
necrotechs all work to their own standards, elaborating on
some functions while simplifying others. The production
of these ’jacks entails a lengthy process of development
and design, and while some necrotechs steal secrets and
dark lore from their colleagues, they cannot help but add
their own refinements and flourishes. So long as their
undertakings continue to meet the needs of the lich lords,
they are given considerable liberty to experiment. Despite,
or perhaps because of, the madness that proliferates among
the necrotechs, remarkable innovations are common in both
helljacks and bonejacks.
Necrotechs readily grow jealous and protective of their
innovations and do not share the details of their activities
except with the lich lords who control them. A ’jack built
in a necrofactorium beneath Dreggsmouth might differ
greatly in materials and construction from its counterpart
manufactured inland from the Blackwater docks. Each of
these blight-born machines, however, is admirably suited to
its dire purpose. Those that are not are rendered down for
their parts and remade.
Laboring in blazing foundries with armies of thralls to serve
them, necrotechs work with a variety of raw materials.
This includes mechanical components salvaged from the
battlefield as well as the skulls, teeth, and horns of beasts,
plus other anatomical material in various states of decay.
Necrofactoriums combine maddened improvisation with
aspects of a crude assembly line process. Commonly used
parts are created in bulk by mindless thralls and machinery,
while more complex pieces are handcrafted by the necrotechs
themselves, making use of a hodgepodge of supplies.
When materials run short, few necrotechs hesitate to make
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 substitutions. Each complete ’jack is as much a distinct
work of art as the product of industrial manufacture.
The necrotechs’ eccentricities are tolerated so long as the quotas
of the lich lords are met. It is not unknown for one of these
fearsome figures to descend into a necrofactorium to make
an example of necrotechs too caught up in their own creative
visions to produce enough machines of war. When properly
motivated, Cryx’s tireless necrotechs can create warjacks at
a prodigious rate, aided by non-traditional techniques and
materials and by their willingness to cut corners and improvise.
Living mechaniks must eat and sleep and invariably grow old,
but the undead can toil day and night for decades at a time.
There are necrotechs in Cryx who have steadily produced
helljacks and bonejacks for centuries uninterrupted.
Military Role
The necromantic energies that lend a spark of reasoning
to Cryxian cortexes also give the warjacks an appetite for
slaughter. Their unique necromechanikal minds possess a
savage and predatory guile amplified by the dark energies
lingering in the suffering-laced necrotite that burns in their
engines. Both bonejacks and helljacks revel in death and
carnage. Some of these aggressive traits have carried over
from the deranged minds of their masters and creators,
instilled in the machines through the runes inscribed into
their components.
The smaller, nimbler bonejacks are produced in greater
numbers than light warjacks typically are by other nations, and
they are employed differently as well. Fast-moving bonejacks
are designed to carry specific armaments and serve as mobile
platforms for any number of terrible devices. Foremost among
these is the arc node. Originally stolen from Cygnar, the secret
of the arc node remains among the most valuable innovations
plundered through necromancy. Many variations on this
device now exist due to the unique approaches of individual
necrotechs, but its use is widespread among the armies of
Cryx and has become a hallmark of bonejack design. Arc
nodes enable warcasters to extend the reach of their already
formidable powers, and no other nation has embraced this
battlefield tactic as enthusiastically as Cryx.
Helljacks serve much the same role for Cryx as heavy
warjacks do for mainland nations. Nonetheless, they are
typically swifter and more lightly armored than other heavy
warjacks. These powerful machines tear through tough
resistance, creating opportunities for bonejacks to reach their
prey and make use of their arc nodes and various weapons.
Perhaps the most terrifying to coastal inhabitants, though, are
the various amphibious helljacks. Dumped over the sides of
Cryxian blackships, these machines walk along the sea floor
and emerge from the waves to strike at vulnerable positions,
playing a central part in the effectiveness of Cryxian raids
and other military operations.
WARJACKS OF CRYX
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NECROTITE
Cryxian helljacks and bonejacks benefit greatly from necrotite,
a source of fuel and energy too atrocious for other nations
to even consider. This foul mineral is found in soils thick with
carnage and resonant with atrocities where it is steeped in
blood and rotted flesh, gathering power from the ambient
suffering. Extremely concentrated, necrotite burns like coal
but lasts significantly longer and is as toxic as it is efficient.
The exploitation of necrotite as a source of fuel provided
an important breakthrough for Cryx. The lich lords had long
experimented with manipulating the energy of souls to replace
or supplement coal as fuel, but those were a limited resource
too impractical for widespread use. Lich Lord Fulmenus was
responsible for unleashing the full potential of necrotite. After
necrotechs developed a variant of the steam engine, necrotite
proved to be an ideal fuel that would come to power countless
mechanikal apparatuses, especially Cryx’s formidable helljacks
and bonejacks. Necrotite sustains intense heat far longer
than regular coal but will poison the living under extended
exposure. Cryxians, however, do not suffer such effects. In
time the lich lords honed methods to refine and concentrate
necrotite and fabricated machine rigs to rapidly extract it from
newer battlefields, ensuring themselves a source as unending
as suffering itself.
Bonejacks and helljacks running on necrotite not only have far
greater operational ranges than would be possible with coal,
but the smoke they produce also serves as a kind of tertiary
weapon system. Living enemies unprepared to deal with the
noxious, choking fumes that necrotite emits are exposed to
the insidious substance, which can result in a prolonged and
painful death well after a battle is resolved.
Cryxian Colossals
Unlike the Iron Kingdoms, Cryx never decommissioned its
original colossals, first conceived in the aftermath of the
Orgoth Occupation. After witnessing the power that such
machines could bring to bear, the Nightmare Empire coveted
the colossals of mainland nations. The secret of how to realize
such machines was coaxed out of the remains of countless
inventors, arcane mechaniks, and mechanikal engineers and
then refined by the necrotechs of Skell.
The initial fruit of their labor was the Kraken, the first truly
modern colossal, which pre-dated those used outside Cryx
by centuries. Having identified the weaknesses of the clumsy
contraptions used by Cygnar and Khador in the Colossal
War, the necrotechs refined their work to fashion a sleeker,
more agile, and more adaptable machine. Following the
development of the first Kraken, the necrotechs swiftly set
about exploring improvements to the design, stretching the
limits of necromechanikal understanding in their pursuit of
the next breakthrough.
Control of the original Cryxian colossals was tightly
regulated, granted only to the lich lords. The amphibious CRYXIAN WARJACK
colossals were deployed as a secret weapon to strike ADORNMENT
powerful blows against Cryx’s enemies and were critical
No two Cryxian warjacks are exactly alike. In addition to the
to accomplishing many key objectives, notably during the
differences in their material compositions, it is common for
Scharde Invasions. With the escalating incursions in recent
a necrotech to apply specific maker’s marks to his creations.
years, colossals are now deployed freely alongside other
These might include runes etched into the hulls or the addition
machines of war.
of black-iron ornamentation, vicious spikes, or the bony
Unlike regular warjacks, a Cryxian colossal is by necessity remains of great beasts. In some cases these adornments go
the product of many necrotechs working in concert. beyond mere embellishment and imbue the ’jack with specific
Under other circumstances the necrotechs would have necromantic powers.
difficulty collaborating with their fellows to realize such
a monumental task, as they would quickly devolve into
infighting. However, Master Necrotech Mortenebra, the self-
styled Numen of Necrogenesis, set in place the machinery
and her most skilled subordinates to ensure the success of
this work. Uncompromising in her standards, she sometimes
forced her underlings to tear down entire months’ worth
of progress and painstakingly rebuild to meet her exacting
specifications.

WARJACKS OF CRYX
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 CORRUPTOR
CRYX HEAVY WARJACK
Longstanding pioneers in the development of caustic compounds and necrotic
poisons, enterprising necrotechs have reaped a great harvest of alchemical
CORRUPTOR
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
6 10 7 5 13 17 — knowledge from the escalating warfare on the mainland. The Corruptor is the
culmination of this dark knowledge, a helljack armed with weapons designed to
NECROCANNON
RNG ROF AOE POW consume both body and soul.
L 12 1 — 14
The fiendish warjack was created specifically to deliver these venomous distillates.
NECROJECTOR Both its necrocannon and insidious necrojector drip with toxic alchemical sludge.
RNG POW P+S
R 1 6 16 These horrific poisons can cause bodies to explode in a torrent of acidic filth and
strip a victim’s soul, restoring vitality to the Corruptor’s warcaster or increasing
DAMAGE the strength of the bond through which that warcaster’s dark powers can manifest.

TACTICAL TIPS

Burster – Because the boxed model is removed from play before being destroyed, it does not generate a
soul or corpse token.
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L L M C R R
M M C C

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CORRUPTOR
CONSTRUCT
IMMUNITY: CORROSION
NECROCANNON
DAMAGE TYPE: CORROSION
ATTACK TYPE – Each time this weapon is used to make
an attack, choose one of the following special rules:
• BURSTER – When this attack boxes a living or
undead model, center a 5˝ AOE on the boxed
model, then remove the model from play. Models in
the AOE are hit and suffer an unboostable POW 10
corrosion damage roll  . This damage is not
considered to have been caused by an attack.
• DISTILLATION – When a living enemy model is
destroyed by this attack while this model is in its
warcaster’s control range, immediately after the
attack is resolved remove d3 + 3 damage points
from the warcaster.
• PSYCHO VENOM – When a living or undead enemy
model is boxed by this attack, you can choose to
take control of it. If you do, remove 1 damage point
from it, causing it to no longer be boxed. You can
then immediately change its facing. For the rest
of the turn, this model’s controlling warcaster can
channel spells through the affected model as if it
were a model in this model’s controlling warcaster’s
battlegroup with the Arc Node  advantage. The
affected model cannot activate. At the end of the
turn, the affected model is destroyed.
NECROJECTOR
OPEN FIST
ATTACK TYPE – See above.
• BURSTER – See above.
• DISTILLATION – See above.
• PSYCHO VENOM – See above.

unknown 606 ar 12 ft 6.7 tons

unknown necrotite: 91 lbs general: 9.8 hrs

coal: 203 lbs combat: 72 mins

NECROCANNON, NECROJECTOR

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 DEATHRIPPER
CRYX LIGHT WARJACK
The Deathripper, the quintessential Cryxian bonejack, is a terrifying weapon of
surprising speed and bestial ferocity that charges forward to tear apart its enemies
DEATHRIPPER
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
while serving as a magical conduit for the horrifying spells of its master. These 7 7 5 5 14 14 —
’jacks skitter across the battlefield pouring forth poisonous smoke and steam
MANDIBLE
from wickedly efficient, necrotite-fueled engines. The high-pitched keen of the RNG POW P+S
Deathripper venting steam has been written about for decades in fevered war H 0.5 5 12

journals. It is a sound rarely forgotten.

DAMAGE
The Deathripper is built of blackened iron and steel fused with the skulls and fangs
of fearsome, blighted beasts. Powered by steam engines driven by necrotite—coal

laced with death energy—a Deathripper’s jaws leverage enough power to sever

limbs and shear through armored plates. In a blur of billowing smoke, wailing

metal, and bleeding hydraulics, just a few Deathrippers can strip a light warjack

H H C A A M
down to its components within minutes.
H C C M M M

Arc node technology was the pride of Cygnar when initially developed, but
before long Cryx had unraveled the puzzle in its particular, twisted way: defiling PC FA
BASE:MEDIUM
the tombs of innovative engineers and pulling forth their secrets through 6 U

necromantic rituals, necrotechs soon learned how to create arc nodes of their DEATHRIPPER
own. They improved upon the foreign process by using profane materials and ARC NODE
unholy techniques to cheapen and accelerate manufacturing. Cryxian warcasters CONSTRUCT

frequently enter the field with a small swarm of arc node–equipped bonejacks,
each a conduit for devastating arcane powers.
MANDIBLE
SUSTAINED ATTACK – During this model’s activation,
when it makes an attack with this weapon against the
last model hit by the weapon this activation, the attack
automatically hits.

unknown 502 ar 6 ft 4 in 2.5 tons

unknown necrotite: 44 lbs general: 18 hrs

coal: 88 lbs combat: 180 mins

MANDIBLE, ARC NODE

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 DEFILER
CRYX LIGHT WARJACK
No two bonejacks are exactly the same, with variations in form and weaponry
commonly noted. Mainlanders often wonder how the Nightmare Empire can
DEFILER
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
7 7 5 5 14 14 — produce such a swarming profusion of fast and deadly constructs. Whereas
other nations allocate each precious warjack cortex carefully, fabrication in Cryx
SLUDGE CANNON
RNG ROF AOE POW proceeds unhindered by any limits. The chief architects of the Cryxian engines
H SP 8 1 — 10 of war are necrotechs—mad, unliving geniuses capable of seemingly endless
BASH innovation even as they hoard secrets and compete with one another for the favor
RNG POW P+S of their unforgiving masters. Running day and night, their factories produce a
0.5 0 7
near-endless supply of nightmarish fabrications.
—

DAMAGE The Defiler has proved its worth as a light assault bonejack. Fast and mobile, it can
lope across the battlefield in a few long strides and fix an enemy warcaster in its

sights before the fight has even begun. Its arc node remains ever ready to deliver
arcane death.


Unlike the Deathripper, the Defiler avoids close combat. Instead it fires on the
H H C A A M enemy from a distance with its sludge cannon, which spews a concentrated,
H C C M M M
caustic poison that consumes metal and stone more easily than flame eats wood.
Faced with the Defiler’s deadly arc node and the horrendous wounds caused by its
PC FA sludge cannon, enemies often desperately try to close and deal with this bonejack
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before their allies are torn apart.
DEFILER
ARC NODE
CONSTRUCT
SLUDGE CANNON
CONTINUOUS EFFECT: CORROSION
DAMAGE TYPE: CORROSION

unknown 512 ar 6 ft 4 in 2.6 tons

unknown necrotite: 44 lbs general: 17 hrs

coal: 88 lbs combat: 165 mins

SLUDGE CANNON, ARC NODE

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 DESECRATOR
CRYX HEAVY WARJACK
Among the sinister achievements of the necrotechs of Cryx, the Desecrator has a
reputation as an especially terrible and unnatural machine. To exterminate all life
DESECRATOR
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
within its reach, it draws from the same illimitable darkness that spawns the void- 5 12 6 5 12 18 —
imprisoned banes. Armed with the malignant plague bringer cannon—an alchemical
PLAGUE BRINGER
weapon of singular destructive capacity—and its whirring vivisector, the Desecrator RNG ROF AOE POW
wades through battle doing the murderous bidding of Cryx’s generals. L 10 1 4 12

The plague bringer cannon connects to a deep reservoir within the Desecrator’s hull VIVISECTOR
RNG POW P+S
that is filled with a powerful corrosive similar to that which bile thralls and bloat thralls R 1 5 17
employ. Within this sealed container the liquid ferments and concentrates, its necrotic
essence brewing a toxic sludge that carries swift and terrible diseases capable of killing DAMAGE
even those not directly hit and slain outright. Some mutter that those immediately
melted into a bloody slurry are the lucky ones, as others nearby splashed with even a

single drop of this toxin endure weeks of torture as their skin and organs putrefy. This


suffering makes the souls of the slain more likely to linger on Caen, to the benefit of
L R
liches and warwitches, who easily capture them in their soul cages.
L L M C R R

When the Desecrator rises from the ocean’s deep, black waters, it is a terrible M M C C

sight to behold. The soldiers of the mainland dread encountering its hulking alien
form, for their armor and defensive formations offer no protection from the flesh- PC FA
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eating death its plague bringer delivers. Troops have been known to turn their 14 U

weapons on themselves rather than suffer its wasting fire. Those who survive the DESECRATOR
Desecrator’s initial volley find the machine quickly upon them, and their blood- AMPHIBIOUS

curdling shrieks are cut short as its vivisector minces their flesh.
TACTICAL TIPS
Accumulator – This model cannot exceed normal focus limits as a result of Accumulator.
Critical Shred – A model can make additional attacks only during its Combat Action.
CONSTRUCT
PATHFINDER
ACCUMULATOR [BANE] – When it begins its activation
within 3˝ of one or more friendly Bane models, this
model gains 1 focus point.
STEADY – This model cannot become knocked down.
PLAGUE BRINGER
DAMAGE TYPE: CORROSION
SCATHER – This attack’s AOE is a hazard that remains
in play for one round. Models entering or ending their
activations in the AOE suffer 1 point of corrosion
damage  .
VIVISECTOR
CRITICAL SHRED – On a critical hit with this weapon
during this model’s Combat Action, after the attack
is resolved this model can make one additional attack
with this weapon against the model hit.
GRIEVOUS WOUNDS – A model hit by this weapon loses
Tough  and cannot have damage removed from it for
one round.

unknown unknown 10 ft 5 in 7.3 tons

unknown necrotite: 96 lbs general: 12 hrs

coal: 265 lbs combat: 120 mins

PLAGUE BRINGER, VIVISECTOR

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 HARROWER
CRYX HEAVY WARJACK
Announcing its presence with the ear-splitting shriek of its mortifier cannon, the
Harrower advances eagerly on the battlefield, hungry for souls. Its opponents can
HARROWER
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
5 12 6 5 12 18 — hope for no clean death in its wake; those cut down by its scything perisher claw
endure an unthinkable fate as their immortal souls are spun loose and harvested to
MORTIFIER
RNG ROF AOE POW fuel the Cryxian machine of war.
L 11 1 3 12
This amphibious helljack exploits a simple necromantic principle: the power
PERISHER derived from a captive soul is proportional to the torment its host suffered in death.
RNG POW P+S
R 2 4 16 Harrowers burst from the ocean depths to raid coastal towns and fill their soul
cages. These compact cages, etched with golden runes and lined with necrotite,
DAMAGE also provide ammunition for the ’jack’s ghastly mortifier.

Infused with soul energy, a mortifier’s shell exists partially within the spirit realm
and appears to mortal eyes only as a sickly blur as it passes through solid obstacles.
It becomes tangible again on impact with its intended target, shredding armor
L R and flesh in a necromantic conflagration. In the rare cases a victim does not die
L L M C R R outright, the wounds left by this ammunition heal slowly, if at all, and are prone
M M C C to tainted infection—a chilling reminder of the vile process by which imprisoned
souls are obliterated.
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TACTICAL TIPS
HARROWER Soul Taker: Spirit Harvester – This model cannot exceed normal focus limits as a result of Spirit Harvester.
AMPHIBIOUS
Remember, if more than one model is eligible to collect a model’s soul token, the closest eligible model
CONSTRUCT collects it. If this model already has five soul tokens it is not eligible to collect another one.
PATHFINDER Steady – Remember, even if a thrown model cannot be knocked down, it must still forfeit its Normal
QUICK WORK – When this model destroys one or more Movement or Combat Action if it activates later in a turn it was thrown.
enemy models with a melee attack during its Combat
Thresher – These attacks are not optional.
Action, immediately after that attack is resolved this
model can make one basic ranged attack.
SOUL TAKER: SPIRIT HARVESTER – This model can gain
soul tokens. When a living enemy model is destroyed
within 5˝ of this model, this model gains the destroyed
model’s soul token. This model can have up to five
soul tokens at any time. At the start of this model’s
activation, you can remove soul tokens from this model
to give it 1 focus point for each token removed.
STEADY – This model cannot become knocked down.
MORTIFIER
DAMAGE TYPE: MAGICAL
WRAITH SHOT – When this model makes an attack with
this weapon, it can spend a soul token to use Wraith
Shot. If it does, it ignores LOS, concealment, and cover
when making this attack. Attack and damage rolls
resulting from the attack are boosted.
PERISHER
THRESHER (HATTACK) – This model makes one melee
attack with this weapon against each model in its LOS
that is in this weapon’s melee range. Thresher attacks
are simultaneous.

unknown 599 ar 10 ft 5 in 7.6 tons

unknown necrotite: 96 lbs general: 12 hrs

coal: 260 lbs combat: 120 mins

MORTIFIER, PERISHER

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 HELLDIVER
CRYX LIGHT WARJACK
Both the undead and the necromechanikal legions of the Nightmare Empire have
proven insidious, adaptable, and unpredictable. Even as the mortal armies labor
HELLDIVER
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
to expand their sprawling fortifications, Cryx strikes at them with impunity. When 5 8 6 4 13 15 —
Toruk’s enemies cannot be surmounted over land, the Helldiver moves beneath
JAWS
and erupts from trench floors to sow death and chaos among soldiers supposedly RNG POW P+S
safe behind earthen defenses. Many patrol squads have returned from no man’s H 0.5 5 13

land to find only an ominous pit strewn with the blood-soaked remains of their
eviscerated comrades. DAMAGE

The Helldiver drags itself through the earth using its powerful front claws. Though

incredibly strong, these appendages are used only for movement, not attacks. The

machine’s mighty jaws are its weapon, which it uses to seize and sunder its hapless

victims. Few sights are more terrible than one of these metallic menaces erupting
H C C C C M
unexpectedly from the earth to chew apart all living flesh within reach.
H H H M M M

A Helldiver can burrow through soil at a startling pace before surfacing to ambush
unwary prey. A patient and methodical killer, it can wait endlessly, motionless PC FA
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and difficult to detect, once it is positioned below ground. Cryx has seeded many 6 U
potential battlefields across war-torn regions with these black iron monstrosities in
HELLDIVER
preparation for the promised slaughter ahead. CONSTRUCT
BURROW – You can choose not to deploy this
model at the start of the game. If it is not deployed
TACTICAL TIPS normally, place the burrow marker up to 6˝ beyond
Drag Below – Because the boxed model is removed from play before being destroyed, it does not generate your deployment zone at the same time you would
a soul or corpse token. place your models with Advance Deployment. At the
beginning of each of your Maintenance Phases, you
can either cause this model to surface or move the
burrow marker up to 3˝. If this model surfaces, place it
anywhere completely within 3˝ of the burrow marker.
If there is no room to place this model, remove it from
play. Once this model has been placed or removed from
play, remove the burrow marker from the table. This
model must forfeit its Normal Movement or Combat
Action during its activation the turn it surfaces.
DIG IN (HACTION) – This model gains cover, does not
suffer blast damage, and does not block LOS. The
model remains dug in until it moves, is placed, or is
engaged. It can begin the game dug in.
DRAG BELOW – During this model’s activation,
immediately after resolving an attack in which it boxed
an enemy warrior model, this model can use Drag
Below. The boxed model is removed from play and this
model can immediately make a full advance and then
perform a Dig In special action, then its activation ends.
This model cannot be targeted by free strikes during this
movement.

unknown unknown 8 ft 2.1 tons

unknown necrotite: 33 lbs general: 16 hrs

coal: 66 lbs combat: 120 mins

JAWS

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 INFLICTOR
CRYX HEAVY WARJACK
The Inflictor is a dark sentinel among Cryx’s helljacks, a machine that combines all the
deadly cunning of its counterparts with a twisted compulsion to protect the master
INFLICTOR
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
6 10 7 5 13 17 — enslaving it. Unlike most helljacks, however, the Inflictor has more than a cortex
at its core: it contains the tormented essence of slain victims that were bound after
SHIELD CLAW
RNG POW P+S death to empower it. These souls pass their anger and madness on to the machine,
L 1 3 13 lending it an unpredictability and malice that can take its enemies by surprise.
STINGER Soon after the discovery of Verrik Kurr’s Seether helljacks, Cryx’s necrotechs
RNG POW P+S
R 2 6 16 tried and failed to unlock the secrets of the mysterious soul drives powering the
rage-haunted machines. As master of Cryx’s war production, Lich Lord Morbus
DAMAGE took personal umbrage at these difficulties in replicating those vicious machines.
Countless mainlanders were captured and brought to Cryxian necrofactoriums to

be subjected to cruel and torturous experiments. The project eventually succeeded
and gave rise to the Inflictor.


L R The torment of the souls within Kurr’s original Seethers caused them to lash
L L M C R R out indiscriminately; the frenzied killing machines required significant effort to
M M C C control. The tortured souls bound within the Inflictor are brought to a narrower,
more convenient derangement. A blend of obsequious servitude and jealous rage
PC FA shapes the Inflictor’s behavior, making it easier to command and equally useful as
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both killer and bodyguard.
INFLICTOR To this end, the helljack’s left arm ends in a shield-like claw that, while more than
CONSTRUCT
SHIELD GUARD – Once per round, when a friendly capable of making crushing strikes, is also admirably suited to warding off attacks.
model is directly hit by a non-spray ranged attack Affixed to the right shoulder is a segmented extensible stinger that can strike from
during your opponent’s turn while within 3˝ of this
model, you can choose to have this model directly hit above or behind. Once it pierces a foe’s vulnerable side or back, this stinger injects
instead. This model is automatically hit and suffers a dose of lethal poison that obliterates internal organs and causes agonizing pain.
all damage and effects. This model cannot use Shield
Guard while it is incorporeal, knocked down, or
stationary.
SHIELD CLAW
OPEN FIST
SHIELD
STINGER
CRITICAL POISON – On a critical hit, gain an additional
die on this weapon’s damage rolls against living models.

unknown 606 ar 11 ft 11 in 6.8 tons

MORBUS necrotite: 100 lbs general: 12 hrs

coal: 270 lbs combat: 120 mins

SHIELD CLAW, STINGER

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 LEVIATHAN
CRYX HEAVY WARJACK
The Leviathan is an immense metal atrocity of frightening mobility. The watertight
furnaces of this horror make it a favorite among blackship captains, who take full
LEVIATHAN
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
advantage of its amphibious nature by deploying it at sea—or, rather, shoving it 5 12 6 5 12 18 —
overboard unceremoniously and allowing it to creep its way silently across the
SPIKER
seabed on its spidery claws toward the unsuspecting enemy. The bodies of many a RNG ROF AOE POW
sailor now slumber beneath the waves due to this nefarious masterpiece of Cryxian L 13 d3 — 13

engineering. CRUSHING CLAW

RNG POW P+S
When it senses prey, a Leviathan surges from the tide like a primordial nightmare R 1 5 17
to bring its murderous weapons to bear. The mighty claw on its right arm is
powerful enough to tear limbs from enemy warjacks and crush smaller enemies DAMAGE
outright. Even more terrifying is the rapid-fire cannon on its left arm. Fueled by
excess steam built up in the necrotite furnace of the helljack and fed with crude

but effective spikes from its reloading hopper, this repeating cannon unleashes a


barrage of metallic death when fired. Smaller quarry such as infantry simply fall
L R
away without resistance beneath the spikes, but warjacks and other large targets
L L M C R R
are mangled dramatically in the staccato burst, their armor and systems shredded M M C C
by the wailing projectiles.

PC FA
TACTICAL TIPS BASE:LARGE
16 U
Steady – Remember, even if a thrown model cannot be knocked down, it must still forfeit its Normal
Movement or Combat Action if it activates later in a turn it was thrown. LEVIATHAN
AMPHIBIOUS
CONSTRUCT
PATHFINDER
STEADY – This model cannot become knocked down.
SPIKER
BURST FIRE – Gain +1 to damage rolls with this
weapon against medium-based models and +2 to
damage rolls against large- and huge-based models.
CRUSHING CLAW
OPEN FIST

unknown 586 ar 10 ft 5 in 7 tons

unknown necrotite: 99 lbs general: 12 hrs

coal: 265 lbs combat: 120 mins

SPIKER CANNON, CRUSHING CLAW

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 NIGHTWRETCH
CRYX LIGHT WARJACK
For centuries Cygnar has had the dubious privilege of being the testing ground
for Cryxian innovation. The Third Army out of Highgate and Westwatch faced the
NIGHTWRETCH
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
7 7 5 5 14 14 — unveiling of weapons too dreadful to be imagined. None who serve along this stretch
of open coastline consider the undead lacking in cunning. They have witnessed an
DOOMSPITTER
RNG ROF AOE POW endless variety of nightmares, of which the Nightwretch is a prime example.
H 6 1 3 14
One of the first experiences with this bonejack occurred after a dispatch arrived
BASH from New Larkholm warning of a Cryxian landing party sighted two leagues
RNG POW P+S
— 0.5 0 7 south of the city. The nearby coastal fort of Westwatch immediately sent out a
company of long gunners intending to put a few bullets in the reviled Cryxian
DAMAGE raiders. Unaware that they faced a new weapon, they stood shoulder to shoulder
as they had been trained. Terrified locals watched from hiding as the soldiers’

disciplined shots dropped several of the incoming bonejacks—but not enough.

The long gunners had only a moment to consider the unfamiliar look of the new
Nightwretch bonejacks before small cannons set into the head of each fired in their
H H C A A M direction. Carrying a particularly volatile mixture of lead shot and alchemical
H C C M M M
waste by-products, the projectiles exploded with a concussive blast that could be
heard for miles. In seconds the entire company was reduced to a smoldering heap
PC FA of flesh flayed from bone, a horrifying sight burned into the memory of the civilian
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witnesses. The ’jacks turned and followed their master back to the landing skiff
NIGHTWRETCH on the rocky beach, their testing mission clearly a success. Necrotechs soon began
ARC NODE mass production.
CONSTRUCT

unknown 590 ar 6 ft 4 in 2.75 tons

unknown necrotite: 44 lbs general: 17 hrs

coal: 88 lbs combat: 150 mins

DOOMSPITTER, ARC NODE

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 REAPER
CRYX HEAVY WARJACK
Cryxian helljacks are disturbingly similar to living creatures, perverse amalgams
of enormous insects fused with the implements of industrialized slaughter. A
REAPER
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
hulking fiend of bone and steel with blackened armor plating that houses a cortex 6 10 7 5 13 17 —
thirsting for death, the Reaper helljack is one of the most terrible inventions to
HARPOON
emerge from the necrofactoriums of Cryx. RNG ROF AOE POW
L 8 1 — 12
The Reaper stalks the battlefield with the single-minded determination of a vicious
hunter. The horrific ’jack fires its harpoon with a thunderous report and the grinding HELLDRIVER
RNG POW P+S
peal of rapidly uncoiling chain. The weapon sinks deep into flesh or metal, and with R 2 6 16
frightening speed the Reaper reels its victim into striking range of its helldriver—a
vicious mechanikal spike of tempered steel driven by a wickedly powerful piston. TUSKS
RNG POW P+S
Capable of punching through iron plate, the helldriver generates enough force to — 1 2 12
pierce boiler casings, rend gears, and reduce enemy warjacks to scrap.
DAMAGE

L R
L L M C R R
M M C C

PC FA
BASE:LARGE
13 U

REAPER
CONSTRUCT
HARPOON
DRAG – When this weapon damages an enemy model
with an equal or smaller base, immediately after the
attack is resolved the damaged model can be pushed
directly toward this model until it contacts a model, an
obstacle, or an obstruction. After the damaged model
is moved, this model can make one basic melee attack
against the damaged model. After resolving this melee
attack, this model can make additional melee attacks
during its Combat Action.
HELLDRIVER
SUSTAINED ATTACK – During this model’s activation,
when it makes an attack with this weapon against the
last model hit by the weapon this activation, the attack
automatically hits.
TUSKS
HARD HEAD – This model can add this weapon’s POW
to its head-butt and slam power attack damage rolls.

unknown 557 ar 11 ft 10 in 6.5 tons

unknown necrotite: 44 lbs general: 10 hrs

coal: 88 lbs combat: 90 mins

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 RIPJAW
CRYX LIGHT WARJACK
Of the many Cryxian weapons familiar to the armies of the Iron Kingdoms,
some were for a long time known only by the appalling wounds left upon the
RIPJAW
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
7 7 5 5 14 14 — bodies of the fallen. Though the Ripjaw’s existence was not confirmed until the
Scharde Invasions, Cygnaran medics and chaplains had for decades noted horrific
BONE SAW
RNG POW P+S lacerations inflicted on both corpses and mechanikal wrecks. Many of these
H 0.5 3 10 had been brutally dismembered, with severed joints torn apart by some kind of
weapon that did not match any other previously associated with Cryx. Retreating
DAMAGE Cygnarans near Highgate produced the first reliable report of the Ripjaw in 586 AR,
describing a pack of the bonejacks converging on an Ironclad and shredding it


within seconds using their mandibles and the whirling saws beneath.

As unsettling as it is to observe these creatures tear apart a larger warjack, seeing

them attack living targets is far worse. The Ripjaw demonstrates an almost bestial
H H C A A M
cunning in battle as it moves alongside others of similar construction, circling its
H C C M M M
prey and marking out the weak. It prefers to hamstring its victims and then set
upon them after they fall, holding them in place with its pincer-like jaws while
PC FA
BASE:MEDIUM its bone saw slices them into mangled chunks. Ripjaws seek out limb joints with
7 U
particular enthusiasm, sawing through knees and elbows of enemies whether the
RIPJAW victims are dead or still screaming and struggling. If left to their own devices they
ARC NODE
CONSTRUCT
will sometimes linger by corpses, cutting them into ever smaller bits until called
BONE SAW to task by the nearest necrotech. This habit has its uses, as necrotechs sometimes
CRITICAL ARMOR-PIERCING – When calculating damage appreciate that the pieces the Ripjaw leaves behind are more easily incorporated
from this weapon on a critical hit, halve the base ARM into Cryx’s gory fabrications.
stats of the model hit.
POWERFUL ATTACK – When attacking with this weapon,
this model can spend 1 focus point to boost all attack
and damage rolls for the attack.

unknown 586 ar 6 ft 4 in 2.6 tons

unknown necrotite: 44 lbs general: 17 hrs

coal: 88 lbs combat: 165 mins

BONE SAW, ARC NODE

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 SCAVENGER
CRYX LIGHT WARJACK
The living denizens of western Immoren learned long ago to watch for death rising
from beneath the ground, but now they are discovering that it also hunts them from
SCAVENGER
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
darkening skies. Cryxian Scavengers plummet into the ranks of the living, driving 7 7 7 4 15 13 —
panicked mortals before their ragged mechanikal wings and snapping beaks.
SNAPPING JAWS
RNG POW P+S
Foul necrotechs imbue the cortex of each Scavenger with an insatiable hunger H 0.5 4 11
for flesh and steel. Scavengers stalk living victims, whose flesh they shred before
returning to the air, dripping trails of gore. The bonejacks take an unwholesome
DAMAGE
joy in seeking out the wounded and the dying, not content to pick flesh from the
dead like the vultures they resemble.

When a Scavenger destroys enemy warjacks, it greedily picks the iron plating,
conduits, and components from the wreckage and consumes them. As with a
bird digesting its prey, these components move into a special reservoir within the H C C C C M

bonejack to be broken down and repurposed elsewhere in its bone and black-iron H H M M

frame. The mechanism by which a Scavenger achieves this feat is poorly understood
by the mechaniks of mainland nations, and the few inert Scavengers they have PC FA
BASE:MEDIUM
managed to examine after battles offer little in the way of answers. It seems that the 7 U

insane necrotechs of Cryx have hit upon countless innovative methods of reaching
the same objective, each one more baffling than the last.
SCAVENGER
CONSTRUCT
FLIGHT
FINISHER – This model gains an additional die on
damage rolls against damaged models.
SPRINT – At the end of an activation in which it
destroyed or removed from play one or more enemy
models with melee attacks, this model can immediately
make a full advance, then its activation ends.
SNAPPING JAWS
ASSIMILATION – When this model destroys an enemy
construct model with this weapon, immediately after
the attack is resolved remove d3 damage points from
this model.

unknown unknown 6 ft 4 in 1.5 tons

unknown necrotite: 31 lbs general: 18 hrs

coal: 61 lbs combat: 180 mins

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 SEETHER
CRYX HEAVY WARJACK
Skell necrotechs immediately recognized Seethers as invaluable weapons and set
some aside for reverse engineering, but all such attempts have failed. The rest were
SEETHER
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
6 10 8 5 12 17 — gifted to prestigious Cryxian commanders on the mainland, where the terrible
machines could wreak the bloody havoc for which they were crafted.
TALON
RNG POW P+S
L 1 7 17
Master Necrotech Verrik Kurr was widely considered a lunatic even by the
standards of Cryx. He sought insight into the creation of the charnel mineral
TALON necrotite by systematically torturing victims and distilling their life force. Obsessed
RNG POW P+S
R 1 7 17 with formulae just out of his grasp, Kurr became convinced the accursed Librum
Mekanecrus contained the answers he needed and launched an exhaustive search
TUSKS
RNG POW P+S
for the tome. When the necromancer disappeared, an eventual examination of his
— 1 2 12 laboratory revealed only the massacred bodies of his assistants along with a small
number of inert Seethers. Agents of other lich lords had long kept close tabs on
DAMAGE Kurr’s work, suspecting he was being less than forthcoming with his results. The
lich lords very eagerly integrated the Seethers he left behind into their armies,

while necrotechs struggled to recreate Kurr’s genius. While they have learned

how to produce additional Seethers, some insist Kurr’s originals are superior and

L R
possessed of especially vicious cunning.
L L M C R R
Seethers follow basic Slayer design with some rather extreme modifications,
M M C C
most notably the soul drives grafted to their cortexes. These baneful devices
contain malevolent spirits that provide the helljacks with a bottomless font of
PC FA
BASE:LARGE unmitigated rage.
13 U

SEETHER TACTICAL TIPS

CONSTRUCT Uncontrollable Rage – If the Seether cannot run or charge, it activates normally.
BERSERK – When this model destroys one or more
models with a melee attack during its Combat Action,
immediately after the attack is resolved it must make
one additional melee attack against another model in its
melee range.
COUNTERCHARGE – When an enemy model advances
and ends its movement within 6˝ of this model and in
its LOS, this model can immediately charge it. This
model can use Countercharge only once per round and
not while engaged.
UNCONTROLLABLE RAGE – This model must run
or charge during its activation if it can, unless it
is engaging an enemy model. It does this without
spending focus.
TALON
OPEN FIST
TUSKS
HARD HEAD – This model can add this weapon’s POW
to its head-butt and slam power attack damage rolls.

unknown unknown 12 ft 0 in 6.5 tons

KURR necrotite: 99 lbs general: 12 hrs

coal: 265 lbs combat: 120 mins

TWIN DEATH CLAWS, TUSKS

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 SHRIKE
CRYX LIGHT WARJACK
The Shrike soars despite the weight of its great tempered-steel wings by virtue of
the roaring fires of its necrotite engine and the dark spells woven into its frame.
SHRIKE
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
Following the acute predatory instincts instilled in its cortex, the Shrike surveys the 7 7 7 4 15 13 —
field of battle from aloft before plunging down into the formations of the living to
VICIOUS BEAK
scythe through the ranks with its fearsome bladed wings. Limbs are shorn off and RNG POW P+S
torsos sliced in two. A splattering of gore plasters those lucky enough to survive the H 0.5 4 11

bonejack’s initial swooping attack. With each pass the Shrike emits a soul-chilling WING BLADES
shriek that is soon echoed by the tormented cries of the wounded and dying. RNG POW P+S
— 0.5 4 11
The malicious machines wreak a surprising amount of destruction for their size,
and enemies who underestimate these bonejacks pay a heavy toll. Moreover, the DAMAGE
appearance of Shrikes often heralds the arrival of a larger Cryxian force. The
bonejacks harry those enemies attempting to take shelter behind battlements,

slashing through soldiers who naively believed themselves safe and sending the

heads and limbs of hapless defenders toppling from walls. By the time the primary

army of undead turns up, chaos has already been sown among the living, making
H C C C C M
victory all the easier. H H M M

PC FA
BASE:MEDIUM
6 U

SHRIKE
CONSTRUCT
FLIGHT
BLADE RUSH – While making a trample power attack,
this model ignores free strikes and does not stop when
it contacts a model with a medium or larger base, an
obstacle, or an obstruction. This model makes trample
attacks against models regardless of their base size.
SMASHER – This model can make trample power attacks
without spending focus and gains an additional die on
trample attack rolls.
THRESHING BLADES – This model gains +4 to its
trample power attack damage rolls.
TRAMPLE POWER ATTACK – This model can make
trample power attacks.

unknown unknown 6 ft 4 in 1.5 tons

unknown necrotite: 35 lbs general: 18 hrs

coal: 61 lbs combat: 180 mins

VICIOUS BEAK, WING BLADES

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 SLAYER
CRYX HEAVY WARJACK
The Slayer’s soulfire furnace blazes with a savage intensity that pushes the helljack
to ever-greater feats of destruction. The Slayer exists to sow terror, cleave through
SLAYER
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
6 10 7 5 13 17 — bodies with its great claws, and soak the earth with the spent vitality of its broken
victims.
DEATH CLAW
RNG POW P+S
L 1 6 16
An eerie green glow pulsates from the Slayer’s furnace, a frightful light illuminating
even its eye sockets, suggesting some greater intelligence. After decades of Cryxian
DEATH CLAW terror along the coasts, any greenish lights—like those found floating in the bogs
RNG POW P+S
R 1 6 16 and fens of Immoren—are often called “Cryxlight” by superstitious travelers.

TUSKS The Slayer’s tempered metal claws are powerful enough to rend metal and powder
RNG POW P+S bone on impact. It is further armed with cruelly curved tusks amputated from great
— 1 2 12
beasts and bolted crudely onto its armored skull for use in vicious charges. The
helljack’s furnace is powered by the remnants of life trapped within its necrotite
DAMAGE
fuel. Those who tend to these murderous machines insist they run best on necrotite
scavenged directly from the field of slaughter.

TACTICAL TIPS
L R Combo Strike – A model with a crippled weapon system cannot use it to make chain attacks, special
L L M C R R attacks, or power attacks.
M M C C

PC FA
BASE:LARGE
10 U

SLAYER
CONSTRUCT
DEATH CLAW
OPEN FIST
COMBO STRIKE (HATTACK) – Make a melee attack.
Instead of making a normal damage roll, the POW of
the damage roll is equal to this model’s STR plus twice
the POW of this weapon.
TUSKS
HARD HEAD – This model can add this weapon’s POW
to its head-butt and slam power attack damage rolls.

unknown 531 ar 11 ft 10 in 6.25 tons

unknown necrotite: 100 lbs general: 12 hrs

coal: 200 lbs combat: 120 mins

TWIN DEATH CLAWS, TUSKS

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 STALKER
CRYX LIGHT WARJACK
The field of battle breeds superstition. Some whisper of unseen horrors skulking
along the battlefield, inflicting all manner of misfortune upon the living. Those
STALKER
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
warcasters who have fallen prey to the Stalker’s scything blades learned too 7 7 7 4 15 13 —
late that at the heart of every tale is a spark—or more—of truth. The Stalker is a
EVISCERATOR
nightmarish fusion of darkness and steel designed for a single purpose: to butcher RNG POW P+S
those who oppose the will of the Dragonfather. L 1 5 12

With a shadowy hull that writhes and ripples in the light, this insidious creation EVISCERATOR
RNG POW P+S
is nearly indiscernible from a distance. Striding swiftly forward on its slender but R 1 5 12
powerful spiny legs like a great iron insect, a Stalker springs adroitly over any
obstacle in its path. Once within reach of its prey, it lashes out with its threshing DAMAGE
blades for a quick, decisive kill. These malefic weapons rend both flesh and arcane
defenses. Moreover, Stalker blades are coated with a necrotic agent that saturates

wounds and weakens even the hardiest combatants.

For the better part of a century, Stalkers have unfailingly served the dark designs L R

of Cryx by brutally murdering their intended victims despite the protection of L L M C R R

armed escorts. The Stalker’s ability to pursue its target relentlessly while evading M M C C

all other adversaries makes it a doubly maddening apparition. A Stalker cannot be

seen or studied, and its movements cannot be predicted—thus, it remains a killing PC FA
BASE:MEDIUM
machine both feared and admired. 8 U

STALKER
ADVANCE DEPLOYMENT
CONSTRUCT
PATHFINDER
STEALTH
BOUNDING LEAP – Once per activation, after making
a full advance as its Normal Movement but before
performing its Combat Action, this model can spend
1 focus point to be placed completely within 5˝ of its
current location.
EXTENDED CONTROL RANGE – When checking to see
if this model is in its controller’s control range, double
the range.
EVISCERATOR
BLESSED
GRIEVOUS WOUNDS – A model hit by this weapon loses
Tough  and cannot have damage removed from it for
one round.

unknown unknown 8 ft 10 in 2.2 tons

unknown necrotite: 33 lbs general: 16 hrs

coal: 66 lbs combat: 120 mins

TWIN EVISCERATORS

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 BARATHRUM
CRYX HEAVY WARJACK
Among Master Necrotech Verrik Kurr’s final and most unusual fabrications,
Barathrum is a mechanized terror born from the nightmares of a lunatic. The
BARATHRUM 1
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
6 10 8 5 13 18 — machine was crafted at the height of Kurr’s brilliance even as he began his descent
into madness, and its design exploits similar necrotechnology as was employed
TALON
RNG POW P+S in the Seether. Its soul drive closely approximates that of its predecessor, and the
L 1 7 17 tormented souls that fuel this device lend it the same erratic ferocity. Barathrum’s
TALON form is distinctive, however, with great scooping talons that enable it to burrow
RNG POW P+S into the earth and emerge elsewhere with terrifying alacrity.
R 1 7 17
Lich Lord Terminus took an interest in this helljack after Kurr’s disappearance and
TUSKS
RNG POW P+S
claimed it as his own. Likely he was intrigued by the helljack’s unusual intellect
— 1 2 12 and will, recognizing at once the tactical possibilities of its remarkable capabilities.
Assuming responsibility for the frenzied construct did force him to find a way
DAMAGE to bring it under control, as it had been prone to extreme unpredictability. In the
years after acquiring it, the lich lord spent considerable effort to tame the crazed

machine, or at the very least to make it subject to his will. Barathrum has slowly

developed restraint—or perhaps more accurately, a measure of fear and respect for

L R
its master.
L L M C R R
Through the application of the lich lord’s undeniable resolve, the helljack has
M M C C
learned discipline and subterfuge. No longer does the machine’s cortex constantly
submit to the incessant rage of its soul drive. Instead, the helljack burrows with its
PC FA
BASE:LARGE massive talons to patiently await the footfalls of the living. Once its prey ventures
15 C
within reach, Barathrum explodes from the ground in a shower of dirt and black
BARATHRUM 1 iron, engulfed in a cloud of necrotite fumes, to seize its victims and drag them
ADVANCE DEPLOYMENT screaming beneath the earth to a premature burial. Little can demoralize the
CONSTRUCT
BOND [TERMINUS] – If this model begins the game infantry of the Iron Kingdoms like witnessing a string of comrades summarily
in Terminus’ battlegroup, it is bonded to him. This swallowed by the very ground on which they tread.
model is not considered to be bonded while under your
opponent’s control. While this model is bonded to
Terminus and in his control range, it gains Unyielding.
The rage-fueled viciousness of the spirits trapped within Barathrum’s soul drive
(While engaging an enemy model, a model with has only grown more terrible in its time under Terminus’ command. Once the
Unyielding gains +2 ARM.)
COUNTERCHARGE – When an enemy model advances
helljack is let loose to rampage, this maleficence reasserts itself. Committing to
and ends its movement within 6˝ of this model and in slaughter with reckless abandon, the ’jack cleaves soldiers in two with its shoveled
its LOS, this model can immediately charge it. This
model can use Countercharge only once per round and hands and impales others on its tusks. When it ultimately plunges out of sight, it is
not while engaged. often with yet another victim in tow—a trophy sentenced to a horrific death in the
DIG IN (HACTION) – This model gains cover, does not
suffer blast damage, and does not block LOS. The
implacable darkness beneath the ground.
model remains dug in until it moves, is placed, or is
engaged. It can begin the game dug in.
DRAG BELOW – During this model’s activation,
TACTICAL TIPS
immediately after resolving an attack in which it boxed Drag Below – Because the boxed model is removed from play before being destroyed, it does not generate
an enemy warrior model, this model can use Drag a soul or corpse token.
Below. The boxed model is removed from play and this
model can immediately make a full advance and then
perform a Dig In special action, then its activation ends.
This model cannot be targeted by free strikes during this
movement.
TALON
FEEDBACK – If this weapon damages a warjack that is
part of a battlegroup, the warjack’s controller suffers 1
damage point.
TUSKS
HARD HEAD – This model can add this weapon’s POW
to its head-butt and slam power attack damage rolls.

unknown unknown 12 ft 0 in 6.5 tons

KURR necrotite: 99 lbs general: 12 hrs

coal: 265 lbs combat: 120 mins

TWIN TALONS, TUSKS

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 CANKERWORM
CRYX LIGHT WARJACK
Cankerworm slithers through battlefields on hooked claws while its armored
scales rasp along its serpentine length. A scavenger that feasts on the carrion of
CANKERWORM 1
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
6 8 7 5 14 16 — dead machines, Cankerworm picks their rusted carcasses clean of parts to integrate
into its own mass. Its ability to regenerate itself has allowed it to emerge from
BITE
RNG POW P+S the wreckage of battle countless times and return to Asphyxious despite its near
H 0.5 3 11 destruction.
REPLICATOR It tears to pieces those who impede it or seek to thwart its purposes, but it has no
RNG POW P+S
— 0.5 5 13 lasting interest in flesh. Its rear terminus houses a strange device that grafts itself
to weapons salvaged from the battlefield. This pincer-like apparatus is well suited
DAMAGE to holding a smashed warjack in place while its mandibles gnaw at it to separate
the chosen component.

Only Asphyxious knows the origins of this enigmatic mechanikal beast, which
some rumors suggest arose of its own accord from the ruined mechanisms
abandoned on war-torn fields of slaughter. Whatever the truth, Cankerworm has
H C C C C M dutifully followed in the lich lord’s shadow for centuries. A creature that seems
H H H M M M more self-created than engineered, the bonejack embodies acquisitive principles of
baffling complexity and takes to the extreme the Cryxian philosophy of rising to
PC FA consume one’s enemies whole.
BASE:MEDIUM
9 C
Cankerworm attacks with a breed of cunning and a sense of self-preservation
CANKERWORM 1 that mimics life. Skulking across the blasted battlefield, Cankerworm waits for
ADVANCE DEPLOYMENT
CONSTRUCT the mightiest of warjacks to suffer crippling damage, then springs to assail the
PARRY vulnerable machine. As it delivers the killing strike, it harvests weapons and other
PATHFINDER
STEALTH useful machinery from the fallen construct. Cankerworm uses its vicious mandibles
BOND [ASPHYXIOUS] – If this model begins the game to tear enemy warjacks apart before ripping into their exposed mechanical guts.
in Asphyxious’ battlegroup, it is bonded to him.
This model is not considered to be bonded while Once it locates a weapon of potency within the ruined shell of the other ’jack, it
under your opponent’s control. While this model is seamlessly integrates the weapon into its own systems. This unprecedented ability
bonded to Asphyxious and in his control range, it
gains Reposition [5˝]. (At the end of an activation to assimilate even the most sophisticated and complex mechanikal devices makes
in which it did not run or fail a charge, a model Cankerworm a particularly versatile tool in the iron lich’s arsenal.
with Reposition [5˝] can advance up to 5˝, then its
activation ends.)
SALVAGE – When a warjack is destroyed while in this
The existence of this machine has only added to the terrifying legacy of Asphyxious.
model’s melee range, remove d6 damage points from Even the lich lord’s servants find the machine disquieting, particularly as it has on
this model. If the destroyed warjack was a heavy
warjack or a colossal, remove +3 additional damage occasion lashed out against those who have displeased its master. Necrotechs cast
points from this model. envious and fearful glances at Cankerworm, both apprehensive of and fascinated
BITE with the unprecedented alien intellect it displays.
ARMOR-PIERCING (HATTACK) – When calculating
damage from this weapon, halve the base ARM stats of No Cryxian interferes with Cankerworm as it scours the battlefields like an
models hit.
REPLICATOR enormous, malignant iron insect. Its behavior is often as inexplicable as it is
ADAPT – When Cankerworm uses the Salvage ability, abhorrent. Necrotechs have observed Cankerworm piling the dead after a battle
you can have the Replicator gain the special rules and and burying itself in their midst. It has dissected machinery and corpses with
weapon qualities of one of the destroyed warjack’s
weapons. The Replicator becomes the type of weapon equal dispassion, and it sometimes salvages a skull or a piece of mechanika if it
adapted (melee or ranged) and uses that weapon’s
RNG, ROF, AOE, and POW. This effect lasts until
feels the item worthy of its master’s further scrutiny. How it chooses its trophies
Cankerworm uses Adapt again. remains a mystery no one has cared to investigate more closely.

unknown unknown 15 ft [length] 3.25 tons

unknown
unknown unknown

BITE, REPLICATOR

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 DEATHJACK
CRYX HEAVY WARJACK
For more than two hundred and sixty years the necromechanikal horror called the
Deathjack has haunted the wilds of western Immoren. Striking without warning,
DEATHJACK 1
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
6 12 8 4 13 19 — this infernal machine voraciously devours souls and leaves nothing but death and
devastation behind it. The greasy smoke from its furnace bears the acrid odors
NECROCLAW
RNG POW P+S of burnt hair and flesh. Countless individuals—indeed, entire villages of men,
L 1 6 18 women, and children—have been consumed in its insatiable flames.
NECROCLAW Long ago, tales of this mechanikal doom reached the Scharde Islands and stirred
RNG POW P+S
R 1 6 18 the interest of the lich lords, who vowed to capture the machine and bend it to
the Dragonfather’s will. Since the Deathjack’s first sighting in 350 AR, agents of
HORNS
RNG POW P+S
Cryx have tirelessly hunted for any shred of lore concerning the enigmatic self-
— 1 3 15 willed construct.

It is a constant source of humiliation to necrotechs that this embodiment of carnage

DAMAGE
caged within a mechanikal frame was not the product of their own twisted genius.
The nightmare machine’s origins are unknown, as is the identity of its creator,
though the secrets of its construction are rumored to be buried within the cryptic
pages of the Librum Mekanecrus. This loathsome tome, coveted by Thamarite cults
L R as well as by the agents of the Dragonfather, supposedly details the melding of
L L M C R R
mechanika with ancient Orgoth rites. Though long lost to the necrotechs of Cryx,
M M C C
the Librum has inspired their deranged designs as they endlessly aspire to match
the demonic perfection of the Deathjack.
PC FA
23 C
BASE:LARGE The Deathjack’s considerable array of necromantic and mechanikal abilities makes
it a potent addition to the armies of Cryx. A savage intellect resides in its Skulls of
DEATHJACK 1
ADVANCE DEPLOYMENT
Hate, the infernal lanterns mounted on its shoulders that continuously utter dire
CONSTRUCT admonitions and cast necromantic spells. This monstrosity has been demolished
MAGIC ABILITY [7]
multiple times before, at great cost of life and suffering, and yet the Skulls of
• NECROMANCY – While this model is in its
controller’s control range, it can spend focus points Hate have assembled it anew from scraps of other machines. The Deathjack is a
to cast its controller’s spells. This model cannot cast
upkeep spells or spells with a RNG of SELF or
seemingly immortal machine that exists for no purpose other than slaughter.
CTRL. Use this model’s Magic Ability score when
making magic attack rolls. While its outer frame bears some resemblance to certain Cryxian helljacks,
SKULLS OF HATE – This model can have up to 5 focus the Deathjack’s furnace is unique. Whereas the engines of lesser bonejacks and
points at any time instead of the normal limit of 3.
During your Control Phase, after focus allocation this helljacks extract energy from necrotite, this singular ’jack fuels itself directly from
model gains 1 focus point for each of its non-crippled the souls of its victims and seems to need no other fuel. Driven by a murderous
arm systems.
SNACKING – When this model boxes a living model appetite, the Deathjack eagerly carries out the imperatives of the Dragon Lord.
with a melee attack, it can choose to remove the boxed
model from play. When it does, this model can remove It took countless attempts and untold resources to press the Deathjack into
d3 damage points.
Cryxian service. Even then, the iron will of the Skulls of Hate proved impervious
NECROCLAW
DAMAGE TYPE: MAGICAL
to necromantic ward and ritual. What could not be broken could only be bound.
OPEN FIST Some believe the final cost of subjugating such an inscrutable abomination remains
HORNS to be paid and that at some future date it will slip its leash. Even with apocalyptic
HARD HEAD – This model can add this weapon’s POW
to its head-butt and slam power attack damage rolls.
revelations surrounding its future, the Deathjack remains too useful and the lich
lords intend to continue to employ this most unnatural and exquisite of horrors.

TACTICAL TIPS
Magic Ability – Performing a Magic Ability special action or special attack counts as casting a spell.
Snacking – Because the boxed model is removed from play before being destroyed, it does not generate a
unknown 350 ar 15 ft 0 in unknown
soul or corpse token.
unknown
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 EREBUS
CRYX HEAVY WARJACK
Every helljack is built to possess a terrible hunger for violence, but the insatiable
bloodlust of the machine called Erebus distinguishes it even among the Cryxians.
EREBUS 1
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
6 10 7 5 14 18 — Born of Skell’s black iron forges, Erebus constantly hears the sinister whisperings
of its master, Lord Exhumator Scaverous, and is compelled to serve him. It stalks
DEATH CLAW
RNG POW P+S across the battlefield with the dark intent of a predator, murdering all in its path
L 1 6 16 and gathering their souls to fuel Scaverous’ arcane efforts. The unclean channels of
DEATH CLAW its cortex hum with savage impulses and murderous instincts, while its black iron
RNG POW P+S claws twitch endlessly even when Erebus sits idle.
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Scaverous spared none of his considerable acumen in the necromantic arts when
DAMAGE he set about constructing this extraordinary iron servant. Utilizing intelligence
gathered by interrogating the corpses of the most renowned necrotechs ever to be

destroyed in service to the Nightmare Empire, Scaverous painstakingly designed
the helljack’s frame based on their dark insights. Millennia of genius were bent to


the completion of this one task as Scaverous assembled his choir of ghostly echoes.
L R
L L M C R R He performed powerful rituals and vile desecrations upon the ’jack’s inert chassis,
M M C C exploiting lore accumulated from centuries of plundering forgotten ruins and
searching the minds of dead masters of necromantic lore. At the construct’s waist,
PC FA Scaverous bound the skulls of two of his most talented assistants—necessary if
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not entirely willing sacrifices in this undertaking—preserved in case he should
EREBUS 1 ever need to consult their memories. Erebus’ cortex had been assembled by these
CONSTRUCT two, following Scaverous’ exacting instructions, over years of careful work. The
IMMUNITY: COLD
extensions from the helljack’s back, forged in the necrofactoriums of Skell, were
BOND [SCAVEROUS] – If this model begins the game
in Scaverous’ battlegroup, it is bonded to him. This refined apparatus attuned to Scaverous and engineered to allow Erebus to deliver
model is not considered to be bonded while under your
opponent’s control. When this model destroys a living
siphoned souls back to its creator even at a distance. It was also fitted with extended
enemy model while bonded to Scaverous and in his claws that could emit a powerful and unnatural chill, leeching all heat from the air
control range, Scaverous gains the destroyed model’s
soul token. around them and inflicting freezing cold on those that the helljack attacks.
OVERTAKE – When this model destroys one or more
enemy models with a basic melee attack during its The lives Erebus has since claimed leave it steeped in the spiritual detritus of a
Combat Action, after the attack is resolved it can thousand bloody deaths. Invisible to most, this spectral effluvium envelops the
immediately advance up to 1˝.
POLTERGEIST – When an enemy model misses this helljack, lashing out with waves of otherworldly power at those who strike its
model with an attack, immediately after the attack is blackened carapace. This preternatural force rebuffs the blows of any daring to
resolved you can choose to push the enemy model d3˝
directly away from this model. challenge the foul machine, knocking opponents aside as if they were gnats in a
DEATH CLAW maelstrom. No mortal efforts can hope to repel Erebus, any more than sharpened
OPEN FIST steel can wholly forestall one’s inevitable slide into the grave.
FREEZE – A model hit by this weapon becomes
stationary for one round unless it has Immunity: Cold  .
TACTICAL TIPS
Bond [Scaverous] – Because Scaverous is the model gaining the soul token, use his location when
determining which model eligible to claim the destroyed model’s soul token is closest to it.

unknown unknown 11 ft 10 in 6.5 tons

unknown necrotite: 100 lbs general: 12 hrs

coal: 205 lbs combat: 120 mins

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CRYX HEAVY WARJACK
Kharybdis is one of the oldest helljacks remaining in service to the Nightmare
Empire. Lich Lord Daeamortus created it centuries ago, soon after the lore
KHARYBDIS 1
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
5 12 7 5 12 18 — regarding such constructs was plundered from the corpses of mainland inventors.
Possessed of an intelligence as alien as its form, Kharybdis is a cryptic entity
BLACK INK
RNG ROF AOE POW eager to terrorize those who sail the Meredius. It emerges from the heaving tide to
H SP 8 1 — 12 assault unsuspecting ships at berth and lay waste to coastal defenses. The helljack
TENDRIL enters battle emitting a choking miasma of acidic vapor that spews forth from its
RNG POW P+S dark carapace as it lashes out with bladed tendrils. Any brave sailors who stand
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their ground are blasted with gouts of black ichor, their eyesight stolen even as
TENDRIL their flesh dissolves.
RNG POW P+S
R 1 4 16 For decades Kharybdis was thought to have been destroyed during the height of
the Scharde Invasions, lost when the Cygnaran navy sank Lich Lord Daeamortus’
DAMAGE blackship. The lich lord himself gave up any thought of salvaging the machine,
unwilling to invest in its recovery. After his defeat by Asphyxious, any such

opportunity was lost.

Intrigued by stories of a powerful helljack slumbering in the crushing depths,
L R however, the pirate warcaster Aiakos sought out others who knew the location
L L M C R R
of Daeamortus’ lost ship. With nothing but a crude map, he set out to find what
M M C C
remains he could. Aiakos dispatched salvage thralls to plumb the graveyard of
ships scattered about the ocean floor. They found the inert Kharybdis along with
PC FA
BASE:LARGE other lost artifacts and set chains to its bulk, attaching them to powerful engines
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aboard the warcaster’s vessel. Soon the remains of the machine were hauled from
KHARYBDIS 1 the heaving sea for Aiakos’ inspection.
AMPHIBIOUS
CONSTRUCT He felt an immediate sense of foreboding when his mind touched the predatory
IMMUNITY: CORROSION
PATHFINDER
consciousness trapped within the machine’s cortex, and upon pressing his palm to
ACID CLOUD (HACTION) – Center a 4˝ AOE cloud effect the hull and disengaging the cortex locks, a blackness filled the warcaster’s mind.
on this model. Models in the AOE when it is placed or In that moment he made a silent pact with the incomprehensible consciousness
that enter or end their activation in the AOE suffer the
Corrosion continuous effect  . The AOE remains in lurking within. The helljack serves Aiakos, though he cannot claim to fully
play for one round.
understand the machine.
BOND [AIAKOS] – If this model begins the game in
Aiakos’ battlegroup, it is bonded to him. This model
is not considered to be bonded while under your Aiakos hired the most skilled necrotechs in Blackwater to repair and rebuild the
opponent’s control. While this model is bonded machine. Once it was restored Aiakos offered Kharybdis, along with other treasures
to Aiakos and in his control range, it gains Prowl.
(While a model with Prowl has concealment, it gains recovered from Daeamortus’ ship, to the reigning pirate king of Blackwater, Lord
Stealth  .) Craethan Morvaen. With the promise of such gifts, the lord granted Aiakos access
STEADY – This model cannot become knocked down.
to his stronghold. Once inside, the warcaster used the helljack to slay Morvaen and
BLACK INK
DAMAGE TYPE: CORROSION his soldiers—the massacre serving as both a declaration of the helljack’s return
CRITICAL BLIND – On a critical hit, the model hit as well as a demonstration of Aiakos’ might and daring. The lich lords whom
suffers Blind for one round. (A model suffering Blind
cannot make ranged or magic attacks, suffers –4 MAT Morvaen had served did not retaliate, suggesting at least nominal approval.
and DEF, and cannot run, charge, or make slam or
trample power attacks. It must forfeit either its Normal Kharybdis now terrorizes victims of Aiakos’ bloody raids, tearing anything within
Movement or Combat Action during its next activation.
Blind can be shaken.) reach to pieces. Pirates under Aiakos’ command give the helljack a wide berth,
TENDRIL unable to read its intentions and fearful it could lash out of its own accord. On
CHAIN WEAPON occasion, the machine has wrapped unsuspecting crewmen in its coils and crushed
OPEN FIST
the life from them before casting the body aside for the victims’ fellows to dispose
CHAIN STRIKE – This weapon becomes RNG 4 during
this model’s activation. of. For his part, Aiakos has done nothing to curb such violent acts, allowing them
to magnify his own reputation.

TACTICAL TIPS
Steady – Remember, even if a thrown model cannot be knocked down, it must still forfeit its Normal
Movement or Combat Action if it activates later in a turn it was thrown.
unknown 370 ar 10 ft 9 in 7.5 tons

unknown necrotite: 99 lbs general: 11 hrs

coal: 265 lbs combat: 110 mins

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CRYX HEAVY WARJACK
The product of fell experimentation spanning many centuries, the helljack Malice
hosts a legion of vengeful spirits, the specters of those who fell under its claws.
MALICE 1
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
6 10 7 6 13 17 — These trapped and tormented souls swarm across its hull, swimming in and out of
its plates and mechanisms, shrieking constantly in a dissonant, deathly cacophony
BARBED HARPOON
RNG ROF AOE POW of madness. A dark and terrible chorus howls within the helljack, the volume
L 8 1 — 14 rising and falling but never entirely gone. Blasphemous whispers permeate its
DEATH CLAW cortex, driving the machine to ever greater extremes of slaughter. Malice exists
RNG POW P+S only to glut itself on the souls of the living; it feasts greedily on the fallen in the
R 1 6 16
heat of battle.

DAMAGE Though its armament and appearance resemble those of the Reaper helljack, Malice
is a unique creation. It is the product of a diseased genius who killed himself in the

pursuit of his greatest work. This hapless necrotech was undone by his magnum
opus, the first of Malice’s now countless victims. Whatever secrets its maker kept


concerning the helljack’s fabrication vanished with him in the moment of the
L R
construct’s bloody awakening.
L L M C R R
M M C C Its black iron body conceals a dark and truly sinister function: the interior chassis
of Malice is studded with a matrix of soul cages linked directly to the helljack’s
PC FA inimitable cortex. There the souls can feed the helljack’s mind with a whispered
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madness unlike anything found in the other achievements of the necrotechs of Cryx.
MALICE 1 This foul warjack has been a weapon in the arsenal of Cryx for over a century,
CONSTRUCT
GHOST SHIELD – This model gains +1 ARM for each and it has served numerous Cryxian masters throughout the years. Most notably,
soul token currently on it. Malice joined Lich Lord Terminus during the Scharde Invasions, wrenching enemy
POSSESSION – When this model hits an enemy non-
warcaster, non-warlock model with a basic melee warjacks from ships’ decks or docksides and hurling them into the sea, letting the
attack during this model’s activation, this model can cold waters of the Meredius extinguish their heartfires. In villages and ports up
spend a soul token to take control of the enemy model.
Immediately after the attack has been resolved, you can and down the coast, Malice gorged itself on the souls of mainlanders.
make a full advance with the enemy model and can
then make one basic attack, then Possession expires. The tortured existence the trapped spirits endure while within the helljack’s
The enemy model cannot be targeted by free strikes
during this movement. A model can be affected by profane form causes them to experience a form of insanity. They are driven to hate
Possession only once per turn. the living, but none more so than their former companions, who callously allowed
SOUL TAKER: SPIRIT HARVESTER – This model can gain
soul tokens. When a living enemy model is destroyed
their souls to be consumed by the black machine. Direct contact offers the spirits
within 5˝ of this model, this model gains the destroyed trapped within the helljack their only escape, as it is then they are able to pour
model’s soul token. This model can have up to five
soul tokens at any time. At the start of this model’s out in a fearsome spectral contagion that overwhelms and possesses the cortexes
activation, you can remove soul tokens from this model of any enemy warjacks it touches. Spirits leaping from Malice to their new host
to give it 1 focus point for each token removed.
temporarily seize control of the other warjack, turning it on its companions before
BARBED HARPOON
DRAG – When this weapon damages an enemy model the specters escape into the wilds of Urcaen.
with an equal or smaller base, immediately after the
attack is resolved the damaged model can be pushed
directly toward this model until it contacts a model, an TACTICAL TIPS
obstacle, or an obstruction. After the damaged model Soul Eater – This model cannot have more than 3 focus points as a result of Soul Eater.
is moved, this model can make one basic melee attack
against the damaged model. After resolving this melee Soul Taker: Spirit Harvester – This model cannot exceed normal focus limits as a result of Spirit Harvester.
attack, this model can make additional melee attacks Remember, if more than one model is eligible to collect a model’s soul token, the closest eligible model
during its Combat Action. collects it. If this model already has five soul tokens it is not eligible to collect another one.
DEATH CLAW
DAMAGE TYPE: MAGICAL
OPEN FIST

unknown unknown 11 ft 10 in 6.3 tons

unknown necrotite: 88 lbs general: 12 hrs

coal: 196 lbs combat: 120 mins

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CRYX HEAVY WARJACK
If the Slayer represents the perfect killing machine, Nightmare is darkness and
mortality incarnate. The cold, blackened shell of this helljack gives form to a bestial
NIGHTMARE 1
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
6 10 8 5 13 18 — predatory instinct. It can become a ghostly specter and move through any barrier
before coalescing into a brutal and terrifying reality. Striding forward alongside
WICKED CLAW
RNG POW P+S Wraith Witch Deneghra, Nightmare melts into the surrounding shadows—until it
L 1 7 17 unexpectedly reaches out to rend its luckless victims limb from limb.
WICKED CLAW Deneghra chose this machine as the vessel of her vengeance the day its claws held
RNG POW P+S
R 1 7 17 her in place for her sister’s violent killing stroke. Yet, this was the same Slayer
that later carried Deneghra’s body from the field, obedient to her even beyond
TUSKS
RNG POW P+S
death. After Asphyxious returned her soul to awaken her reconstructed flesh, the
— 1 2 12 thought of her own blood on its claws fueled Deneghra’s obsession. Her training as
a warwitch had taught her to appreciate and crave the great power of blood rituals
DAMAGE and black deeds done with passions roused. Her murder had left an indelible
imprint on the machine.

Deneghra conducted careful preparations to bind the helljack to her will
permanently. She ordered her mechaniks to modify it extensively to create the
L R perfect instrument for her revenge, and she oversaw every detail of the work
L L M C R R
herself. When the machine seemed all in readiness, Deneghra inscribed a complex
M M C C
pattern of runes empowered by sacral blood upon its surfaces. With the completion
of the final rune, cold fire erupted along the helljack’s form where her life’s blood
PC FA
BASE:LARGE had spilled. Deneghra’s mind burned trails through Nightmare’s cortex, creating
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an imperishable bond between them. Through this link the helljack became the
NIGHTMARE 1 ultimate hunter, a tireless horror that would follow its quarry with infinite patience
CONSTRUCT and tenacity. It became the favored demon Deneghra would unleash upon her
BOND [DENEGHRA] – If this model begins the game
in Deneghra’s battlegroup, it is bonded to her. This enemies, a harbinger of their inevitable destruction.
model is not considered to be bonded while under your
opponent’s control. While this model is bonded to Deneghra’s mastery over death itself and her transcendent embrace of that
Deneghra and in her control range, it gains Stealth  .
state is echoed in her terrible mechanikal creation. As Deneghra seizes power
GHOSTLY – This model can advance through terrain
and obstacles without penalty and can advance independent of the fulfillment of Asphyxious’ will, Nightmare has increasingly
through obstructions if it has enough movement to
move completely past them. It cannot be targeted by
become the instrument by which she carries out her plans. Deneghra’s complex
free strikes. schemes require more deaths than she has time to reap personally, and so at times
PREY – After deployment but before the first player’s
turn, choose an enemy model/unit to be this model/
she sends Nightmare in her stead. Its malevolent eyes glint with a flare of necrotite
unit’s prey. This model gains +2 to attack and damage when she caresses it and speaks the name of its prey and the manner of its death.
rolls against its prey. When the prey is destroyed or
removed from play, choose another model/unit to be Once loosed, Nightmare stalks its targets like a ghastly hound, unfettered by the
the prey. obstacles of the physical world. It moves relentlessly through forest or street with
WICKED CLAW equal ease in pursuit of its named quarry.
OPEN FIST
CHAIN ATTACK: GRAB & SMASH – If this model All hope vanishes from those who witness Nightmare materialize from the shadows
hits the same model with both its initial attacks
with this weapon, after resolving the attacks it can to do slaughter. The machine stares out at the world with a singular, unholy
immediately make a head-butt or throw power attack malice, the fires of its eyes gleaming with menacing coldness in the darkness of
against that target.
TUSKS the night. Those who flee from Nightmare soon despair, for all efforts to evade it
HARD HEAD – This model can add this weapon’s POW prove fruitless, and the helljack closes on them with the terrible certainty of death.
to its head-butt and slam power attack damage rolls.

TACTICAL TIPS
Chain Attack: Grab & Smash – A model with a crippled weapon system cannot use it to make chain
attacks, special attacks, or power attacks.

unknown 606 ar 11 ft 10 in 7 tons

unknown necrotite: 100 lbs general: 12 hrs

coal: 200 lbs combat: 120 mins

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CRYX COLOSSAL WARJACK
The Kraken ranks among the most terrifying necromechanikal fabrications ever
loosed upon the mortals of the Iron Kingdoms. Lashing out with grasping tentacles,
KRAKEN
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
5 16 6 5 10 19 — it snatches up men and stuffs them within the grease-slicked orifices of its shell.
The captured have but a moment of terror to consider their lightless environs
HELLBLASTER
RNG ROF AOE POW before their life energies are extracted and their bodies consumed by a necromantic
S 16 1 5 14 furnace that fuels the Kraken’s engines and armament. The Kraken was conceived
FLAYER as the perfect Cryxian engine of death—a machine that could strike from below
RNG ROF AOE POW with overwhelming force, devour its victims, refuel itself on their carcasses, and
12 d3+1 — 12
then vanish beneath the waves.
—

HARVESTER
RNG POW P+S
The first Kraken was built in the decades following the final defeat of the Orgoth.
L 2 3 19 Having observed the strengths and weaknesses of the mighty machines fielded
by Khador and Cygnar in the Colossal War fought between 250–257 AR, Cryxian
HARVESTER
RNG POW P+S agents raided the graves of the mainland’s most brilliant inventors, arcanists, and
R 2 3 19 mechanikal engineers and interrogated the remains for their genius.

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The necrotechs of Skell immediately set about refining the designs of those great
machines. Well aware of the shortcomings of the first colossals, Cryx designed its
version to be smaller, more agile, and able to traverse a broad range of terrain—
innovations centuries ahead of the mechanikal achievements of the mainland. The
S S S S
use of necrotite to power the Kraken’s engines further reduced the weight of the
machine, making it shockingly fast for such a large construct.
L L S C C S R R
L L C C C C C C C C R R
L C M M M M M M M M C R For centuries, the lich lords tightly controlled the use of Krakens. Lich Lord
Scopulous, responsible for Cryx’s reserve army, was particularly loath to employ
PC FA the colossals abroad and consented to dispatch them only for the utter destruction
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36 2 of isolated targets such as remote shoreline villages and lone ships carrying
KRAKEN
items or individuals of great value. More than a few vessels thought to have
AMPHIBIOUS been swallowed up by the storms of the Meredius were in fact dragged beneath
CONSTRUCT the waves, their prized passengers taken by the Kraken’s harvesting tendrils. A
PATHFINDER
BONE PICKER – When this model destroys a living or
few witnesses lived to speak of what they had seen, but their stories of great sea
undead enemy model with a melee attack, this model monsters were dismissed as mad ravings or thought to describe living beasts of
gains the destroyed model’s corpse token and the
destroyed model is removed from play. This model can the deep.
have up to three corpse tokens at any time.
CRUCIBLE OF DEATH – This model can spend up to Recent years have seen lich lords leading armies deep inside enemy mainland
three corpse tokens at the start of its activation to gain
1 focus point for each corpse token spent.
territories; combined with the development of enemy colossals, this negated the
KILL SHOT – Once per activation, when an enemy need for secrecy. Pressured by his peers, Scopulous made the previously built
model is destroyed or removed from play as a result of Krakens available to the generals of Cryx. Lich Lord Asphyxious, eager to bolster
a melee attack made by this model during its activation,
immediately after that attack is resolved this model can his armies independent of the Cryxian islands, went so far as to craft additional
make one basic ranged attack.
Krakens within the depths of his mainland necrofactoriums and unleashed them
MEAT-FUELED – This model gains +1 STR for each
corpse token on it. to support his wars.
HELLBLASTER
DOOM DRIVER – This weapon gains +1 to its damage
The Kraken has demonstrated its lethal worth. A Kraken can quickly maneuver
rolls for each corpse token on this model. to take advantage of any situation on the battlefield, while its hellblaster cannon
HARVESTER delivers deadly payloads. Even as detonations from this cannon tear holes in
enemy formations, bursts from its flayer cannon cut down any foe brave enough
CHAIN WEAPON
OPEN FIST
CHAIN STRIKE – This weapon becomes RNG 4 during to launch counterattacks. The Kraken surges into the ranks of the living to satisfy
this model’s activation.
its endless appetite for slaughter. Its long tentacles erupt like serpents in the midst
of formations, tearing apart warjacks and glutting itself on screaming victims. Not
every victim snatched by a Kraken immediately perishes. Some unlucky few are
kept alive to be subjected to unknown horrors.

TACTICAL TIPS
Bone Picker – Remember, if more than one model is eligible to collect a model’s corpse token, the closest
eligible model collects the token. If this model already has three corpse tokens it is not eligible to collect
another corpse token.
Crucible of Death – This model cannot exceed normal focus limits as a result of Crucible of Death.

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HELLBLASTER CANNON, FLAYER CANNON,

TWIN HARVESTERS

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 SEPULCHER
CRYX COLOSSAL WARJACK
The Sepulcher brings the horrors of Cryxian industry to the doorsteps of western
Immoren in the form of an armored necromantic factory. Sharing some features
SEPULCHER
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
5 16 6 5 10 19 — with the Kraken, the Sepulcher also boasts a pair of extended harvesters with
which it can seize any within reach to subject them to a horrific fate, moving
DESOLATOR
RNG ROF AOE POW with a rapidity not expected in a machine of its size. The surgical implements
S 13 1 4 13 comprising its mandibles twitch in anticipation of converting its victims into
IMPALER cannon fodder to be unleashed in the wars of the Nightmare Empire. It is difficult
RNG ROF AOE POW to discern which it savors more: slaughtering foes or reassembling the dead into
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a new unholy existence.
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IMPALER
RNG ROF AOE POW
Long kept back among Lich Lord Scopulous’ reserve garrisons, the Sepulcher has
R 10 d3 — 13 recently been sent forth to terrorize the mainland, where it has proven itself to
be a weapon of prodigious if unseemly industriousness. The colossal roams the
HARVESTER
RNG POW P+S battlefield in search of fresh materials that can be stitched together to produce a
L 2 3 19 never-ending supply of necromechanikally enhanced thralls. With a sharp and
HARVESTER precise jab to the temple, the Sepulcher punctures skulls with a thick needle
RNG POW P+S fixed to its mandible, killing its victims instantly and rendering them inert for
2 3 19
the procedures to follow. Surgical steel flashes across deadened and dying flesh
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to hastily carve animation runes while at the same time a series of needles dips
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and weaves, expelling jagged lines of coarse thread to connect random limbs to
torsos. Cold and efficient, the Sepulcher is a walking slaughterhouse, yet to the
necrotechs of Cryx it is instead a walking factory by which the Dragonfather’s
S S S S own losses are replenished.
L L S C C S R R
L L C C C C C C C C R R
The Sepulcher lumbers forward with a mechanical hiss in search of victims,
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pausing only to open fire, utilizing explosive canisters of alchemical poison from
its desolator cannon. Upon contact, the poison seeps through skin as well as filling
the lungs with each breath, creating a sickening sense of disorientation in victims,
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BASE:HUGE which makes escape all the more unlikely. Any who manage to survive such tactics
are promptly torn apart by bursts of gun fire from the machine’s dual impalers. A
SEPULCHER smear of mud and guts constantly coats the underbelly of the machine as it moves,
AMPHIBIOUS
CONSTRUCT and the potent stench of viscera hails its arrival as clearly as the billowing smoke of
PATHFINDER its necrotite engines. A direct result of Cryx’s expanding war effort, the Sepulcher
DEATH INDUSTRY – Once per turn at any time during
its activation, this model can spend up to three corpse reveals to enemies a hint of the nightmarish war to come.
tokens. It can either spend three tokens to add a Brute
Thrall to a friendly Mechanithrall unit or it can add one
Grunt to a friendly Mechanithrall unit for each token TACTICAL TIPS
spent. Place each added model in formation completely
Necroharvester – Remember, if more than one model is eligible to collect a model’s corpse token, the
within 4˝ of this model. Added models must forfeit
their Combat Actions the turns they are put into play. closest eligible model collects it. If this model already has three corpse tokens, it is not eligible to collect
NECROHARVESTER [4˝] – When a living or undead
another one.
enemy model is destroyed within 4˝ of this model, this
model gains the destroyed model’s corpse token. This
model can have up to three corpse tokens at any time.
DESOLATOR
ARCING FIRE – When attacking with this weapon, this
model can ignore intervening models except those
within 1˝ of the target.
CRITICAL PARALYSIS – On a critical hit, a living model
hit has its base DEF reduced to 5 and cannot run, charge,
or make slam or trample power attacks for one round.
IMPALER
BURST FIRE – Gain +1 to damage rolls with this
weapon against medium-based models and +2 to
damage rolls against large- and huge-based models.
HARVESTER
CHAIN WEAPON
OPEN FIST
CHAIN STRIKE – This weapon becomes RNG 4 during
this model’s activation.
PULL – If this model hits an enemy model with an
equal or smaller base with a basic attack with this
weapon, immediately after the attack is resolved the hit
model can be pushed directly toward this model until it
contacts a model, an obstacle, or an obstruction.

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DESOLATOR, TWIN IMPALERS,

TWIN HARVESTERS

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OF CRYX
Recruitment of soldiers in Cryx bears little resemblance
to that of other nations. Cryx has no terms of enlistment,
no training regimens, and no population of eager youths
volunteering to fight. Instead, the Nightmare Empire cobbles
together vast armies from the dead, scavenging the remains
of its own living denizens as well as the fallen of other
kingdoms. Bolstering the undead’s numbers is a living pirate
horde of Satyxis, black ogrun, blighted trollkin, and human
Scharde, who terrorize the seas and mainland coastline.
This formidable combination of pirate raiders and animated
thralls defines Cryxian military might.
Necromancy was among the first domains of hidden
knowledge that Toruk imparted to the lich lords who govern
the empire in the dragon’s name. They have developed the
art over a millennium of macabre research and development,
spawning generations of increasingly advanced and terrifying
thralls. The perpetual need for bodies created an entire
black market of slave and corpse trading in the port city of
Blackwater.
Not all of Cryx’s undead soldiers are mindless horrors
ripped from the grave and forced to walk again. The most
complex thralls can obey detailed orders and can even lead
the shambling dead in battle. Thralls lack souls, however,
so even the most sophisticated ones have no will of their
own. This can prove advantageous, as it curtails corruption,
disobedience, and self-motivated ambition.
Some undead do possess thoughts and goals. Banes and
wraiths are cunning beings driven by a hatred of all life.
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Unlike common thralls, banes are created by imprisoning
the maddened spirits of unholy warriors within desecrated
human remains. Cryxian agents scour ancient battlefields
and forgotten tombs to find appropriate vessels; only
the flesh of those who were strong in life can become a
permanent anchor for a bane spirit. Other restless spirits
also serve Cryx without the trappings of physical remains—
ghostly transformed souls that refused to pass to Urcaen or
were bound by necromantic rites.
Arguably the most terrifying undead are the pirates that
crew the Nightmare Empire’s Ghost Fleet in the form of
revenants. These almost imperishable creatures represent the
continuance of a supernatural contract forged between Toruk
and Captain Rengrave of the dirgenmast Atramentous; they
retain most of their faculties in spite of their cursed existence.
They have added to their number over time, bringing
additional slaughtered sailors into the fold along with their
captured ships.
Cryx’s remaining fleets are crewed by toughened mortals
drawn from numerous races dwelling around the Scharde
Islands. Not bound to service by the same magical means
as the undead, these raiders enlist in the Cryxian fleets to
escape life on the main island of Scharde, to satisfy a desire
for wealth and power, or simply to slake their bloodlust.
Among the living eking out their existence in Cryx, pirate
raiders enjoy a relatively privileged life, improving their lot
through murder and pillaging. In the end, though, they are
as much slaves to the lich lords as the undead—and equally
expendable.
The living who perish fighting for Cryx often rise to fight
again, their corpses sold to the necrotechs who scour the THRALL RUNES
docks of Blackwater. The fallen are quickly reanimated to
Toruk granted the lich lords the secrets of thrall runes so they
join the endless throngs of Cryxian thralls.
could spawn undying legions in their own image. Ceremonially
inscribing these runes into corpses allows the liches to create
Rank Structure servants of varying potency, with more intricate inscriptions
Cryx lacks the kind of formal rank structure typically yielding more powerful thralls. The nature of the flesh itself
associated with military forces. Instead, power is invested in may limit its efficacy—not every corpse is suitable for bearing
a trusted servant by a lich lord or seized by those with the will the more powerful inscriptions.
to command. The highest echelons of Cryx are dominated by
AUTHORITY MARKS
self-willed undead. Though the living may aspire to power,
they are destined to fall in service to the Dragonfather and
to rise to serve him in undeath. The mastery of necromancy
is among the few talents that can elevate living vassals to
positions of authority, although necromancers mostly prefer
to join the ranks of the sentient dead by becoming iron liches.
Thrall Warrior Thrall Lieutenant
Field command of Cryxian forces falls to tested leaders,
notably warwitches, ship captains, or the agents of the
lich lords. Cryx also employs intelligent thralls as proxy
commanders, but creating such creatures is extremely time-
consuming, requiring the inscription of the most difficult and
complex runes.

The Cryxian naval fleets demand more organization

and discipline, with the Black Fleet showing greater
professionalism than the rabble of the pirate fleet. Seasoned Thrall Captain Mark of Asphyxious

sailors, as experienced in close-quarters combat as they are

in seamanship, make up the bulk of a ship’s crew. Those
ANIMATION GLYPHS
who live long enough and show the requisite toughness may
become officers. A vicious, bloodthirsty captain commands
each ship, though changes in leadership through mutiny
or death are commonplace. Captains are beholden to the
admirals. Mighty as the admirals are, commanding hundreds Basic Animation Aggression Strength
of vessels and thousands of subordinates, each still must
answer to one or more of the lich lords.

Deployment
The vast majority of Cryx’s thralls are produced either on the
mainland or in the sprawling necrofactoriums of Skell. They Protection Intellect

may wait decades to see service, first housed in the Scharde

Islands, then smuggled onto the mainland by the fleets and
secreted in one of Cryx’s hidden bases until they can be used
to strike against the living.

Unless a major fleet action is required, the captains of Cryxian

Stealth Arcane Power
vessels may largely do as they please. Most raid shipping
lanes and pillage towns along western Immoren’s expansive
shoreline. When needed, individual ships can be pressed
into service to smuggle goods on or off the mainland or to
strike important targets. The raiding pirate fleet most often
provides a diversion to cover the more organized actions
of the Black Fleet, which handles major landings and the
resupply to mainland forces.

TROOPS OF CRYX
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 BILE THRALLS
CRYX UNIT
Disgorged from the hellish workshops of Cryx, bile thralls are noted for their
bloated and swollen bodies. The gurgling sounds of pumps and siphons
LEADER & GRUNTS
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
5 4 2 3 10 13 6 performing unspeakable mockeries of biological processes within them are
especially horrifying to hear. These thralls store volumes of corrosive digestive and
BILE CANNON
RNG ROF AOE POW decomposition agents, with hoses and tubes leading from their distended mouths
SP 8 1 — 12 and fabricated orifices to crude firing mechanisms. With a lurching spasm, each
bile thrall can force a startling volume of caustic fluid out of the nozzle over a wide
Leader & 5 Grunts 9 FA
PC
Leader & 9 Grunts 15 3 area to dissolve flesh and devour tempered metal.
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In the midst of enemy troops, a bile thrall can elect to explode, compressing its
LEADER & GRUNTS overpressurized intestines in a massive purge that creates a grisly shower of fluid,
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flesh, and metal. Anything caught in the foul blast quickly corrodes beneath the
BILE CANNON
CONTINUOUS EFFECT: CORROSION
potent dissolving agents. Metal melts into slag while skin and organs painfully
DAMAGE TYPE: CORROSION liquefy into a bloody, unrecognizable mess. Cryxian commanders unleash dozens
PURGE (HATTACK) – Make an attack with this of these thralls at a time. Powered by their sloshing and pulsating internal
weapon. Each model covered by the spray template
is automatically hit unless this model’s LOS to it is mechanisms, they waddle sluggishly across the battlefield until just the right
blocked by terrain. After this attack is resolved, remove
this model from play. Purge damage is simultaneous.
moment to eject their innards.

Bile thralls serve as much to obliterate an enemy’s morale as to destroy its soldiers.
Those who have seen the creatures in action have been known to go days without
eating, and most who have risked going toe-to-toe with them cannot forget the
putrid stench.

TACTICAL TIPS
Purge – Purge is a ranged attack.

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 CARRION THRALLS
CRYX UNIT
Among the necrosurgeons of Cryx there is no raw material that cannot be
manipulated to serve the Dragonfather and his agents. Blotting out the sky with
LEADER & GRUNTS
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
mechanikally enhanced wings, flocks of carrion thralls are often the harbingers of a 7 5 5 0 13 11 7
full Cryxian assault. These small necromechanikal horrors, simple to manufacture
BEAK
and animate, have existed in the shadows of the Nightmare Empire for centuries, RNG POW P+S
and even with the significant advancements in thrall creation, they continue to 0.5 2 7

prove their value both as spies and as harassing forces on the battlefield.
Leader & 5 Grunts 6 FA
PC
Leader & 9 Grunts 10 2
Difficult to discern from natural birds at a distance, carrion thralls provide Cryxian
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generals with critical reconnaissance on enemy troop movements and dispositions.
These diminutive thralls can operate for extended periods of time, making them LEADER & GRUNTS
perfect sentries to watch over Cryx’s secret bases on the mainland and provide COMBINED MELEE ATTACK
FLIGHT
their masters with a potent early warning system to ensure the Cryxian presence UNDEAD

remains unnoticed by regular patrols. FINISHER – This model gains an additional die on
damage rolls against damaged models.
PROWL – While this model has concealment, it gains
In battle carrion thralls remain in constant motion, diving down to tear at their Stealth  .
enemies’ eyes and exposed flesh before quickly flying out of reach once more. The REPOSITION [5˝] – At the end of an activation in which
combination of their thrall runes and the predatory instincts they carried over it did not run or fail a charge, this model can advance
up to 5˝, then its activation ends.
from life make them particularly deadly against wounded foes. Taking advantage
of this predilection as well as their speed and relative ease of construction,
Cryxian generals expended carrion thralls in great numbers in the aftermath of the
kingdoms’ wars, sowing terror and misery among the surviving enemy troops. The
resources required to create a large number of these thralls is nothing compared to
the withering destruction inflicted by their attacks.

TACTICAL TIPS
Reposition – If a model is part of a unit, its activation does not end until all models in its unit have
completed their activations.

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 MECHANITHRALLS
CRYX THRALL UNIT
Favored tools of dark warcasters only too eager to set packs of the creatures upon
their foes, mechanithralls were among the first horrors Cryx unleashed on the
LEADER & GRUNTS
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
6 7 5 4 11 12 6 mainland. Their powerful fists crush the skulls of coastal defenders and innocent
villagers with equal disregard, and there is no end to their reserves. The Nightmare
STEAMFIST
RNG POW P+S Empire rebuilds their ranks from the corpses of the slain—soldiers who survive an
0.5 3 10 engagement may well experience the horror of seeing their fallen friends among
the next wave of attackers. The lifeless eyes of their former companions stare from
Leader & 5 Grunts 6 FA
PC
Leader & 9 Grunts 10 U within their rotting flesh, while steam-powered pistons promise an impending
BASE:SMALL and brutal death.
LEADER & GRUNTS Necrotechs and stitch thralls pick through ravaged battlefields even as battle rages,
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scavenging for friendly and enemy corpses alike as well as for salvageable pipes
STEAMFIST
and steam engines to integrate into them. Inscribed with basic runes and animated
COMBO STRIKE (HATTACK) – Make a melee attack.
Instead of making a normal damage roll, the POW of by dark energies, the remade bodies become fresh reinforcements for the Cryxian
the damage roll is equal to this model’s STR plus twice
the POW of this weapon.
army. Mechanithralls are further augmented with two heavy gauntlets powered
by steam pressure coursing through the conduits and pipes that weave throughout
their cadaverous bodies. These gauntlets greatly enhance their strength; indeed, a
mechanithrall’s strike is nearly as powerful as the impact from a steamjack.

Mechanithralls charge heedlessly into destruction, climbing over bodies with as

little concern as over any other terrain to strike at the enemy. They follow orders
blindly and have been seen using cover and lying in ambush—perhaps tactical
habits from their former lives reappearing in endless echoes, much like the vile
creatures themselves.

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 SKARLOCK COMMANDER
CRYX COMMAND ATTACHMENT
Relentless and devoid of passion but clever enough to be unpredictable, skarlock
commanders serve as vital intermediaries between Cryx’s generals and its teeming
SKARLOCK
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
hordes of mindless thralls, wielding those lesser thralls as a knife to ease into 6 4 6 3 14 12 8
the vital organs of opposing armies. Under the protection of the commanders’
FELL SPEAR
necromantic powers, the mindless ranks of bile thralls and mechanithralls reach RNG POW P+S
their full potential. 2 6 10

Intricate runes carved into flesh and etched upon bone by necromancers lend the DAMAGE:5

spark of unlife that places the skarlock commanders among the most complex
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BASE:SMALL
thralls of Cryx. While lacking true self-will, these advanced thralls possess a cold 3 U
intelligence as well as unwavering devotion exceeding any mortal commander’s.
ATTACHMENT [MECHANITHRALLS OR BILE THRALLS] –
They have no need of valor, for their dedication is crafted into their very bones. This attachment can be added to a Mechanithrall or
Bile Thrall unit.
Each commander carries a fell spear, an accursed weapon crafted in the charnel SKARLOCK
forges of Cryx, and wields potent magic capable of scouring enemies in gouts of OFFICER
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black flame or unraveling the spells of enemy arcanists. As they lead the march BATTLE WIZARD – Once per turn, when this model
across the field, the commanders tear free the souls of those overtaken by their destroys one or more enemy models with a melee attack
during its activation, immediately after the attack is
thralls, each victim fueling another blast of dark magic to drive the masses of fetid resolved it can make one Magic Ability special attack or
flesh and machine deeper into the heart of enemy lines. special action.
MAGIC ABILITY [6]
• DARK FIRE (HATTACK) – Dark Fire is a RNG 10,
TACTICAL TIPS POW 12 magic attack. When a living enemy model
is destroyed by Dark Fire, the spellcaster gains
Magic Ability – Performing a Magic Ability special action or special attack counts as casting a spell. the destroyed model’s soul token regardless of the
Officer – Because this model is an Officer, when it is destroyed it does not replace a Grunt in its unit. proximity of other models.
Instead the Leader becomes the unit commander. • DISBINDING (HACTION) – Enemy upkeep spells and
animi on this model and its unit immediately expire.
Soul Taker: Soul Cage – Remember, if more than one model is eligible to collect a model’s soul token,
SOUL TAKER: SOUL CAGE – This model can gain soul
the closest eligible model collects it. If this model already has three soul tokens it is not eligible to collect tokens. When a living enemy model is destroyed within
another one. 2˝ of this model, this model gains the destroyed model’s
soul token. This model can have up to three soul tokens
at any time. This model can spend soul tokens for the
following:
• STRENGTH OF DEATH – During its Combat Action,
this model can spend soul tokens to boost one
attack or damage roll for each token spent.
TACTICS: ADVANCE DEPLOYMENT – Models in this unit
gain Advance Deployment .
FELL SPEAR
DAMAGE TYPE: MAGICAL

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 BRUTE THRALL
CRYX MECHANITHRALL WEAPON ATTACHMENT
The latest development in mechanithrall research, the brute thrall signifies a natural
evolution for the proud meatsmiths of Cryx, who have long enjoyed integrating local
BRUTE THRALL
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
6 9 6 4 11 14 5 creatures into their malignant creations. These hulking monstrosities are cobbled
together from the carcasses of Scharde trollkin and black ogrun, along with masses
HEAVY STEAMFIST
RNG POW P+S of conduit, steel plate, and nameless mechanika powered by a necrotite furnace.
0.5 5 14 Though the result lacks both subtlety and cognitive capacity, it is unquestionably
DAMAGE:8
well suited to its role on the battlefield: crushing any obstacle in its way.

Utterly fearless and all but mindless, brute thralls march ahead of scores of
PC FA
BASE:MEDIUM
2 U mechanithralls as they wade into combat. Soft targets they encounter are quickly
pummeled into unidentifiable, blood-soaked heaps beneath the sheer power of the
ATTACHMENT [MECHANITHRALLS] – This attachment
can be added to a Mechanithrall unit. brute thralls’ steam-driven fury. Inserting several brute thralls in amid their smaller
BRUTE THRALL counterparts serves to create a threat against which enemy commanders have no
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easy solution. They cannot risk letting the brutes survive to reach their lines, yet each
SHIELD GUARD – Once per round, when a friendly
model is directly hit by a non-spray ranged attack of these masses of animated flesh and muscle can endure tremendous punishment
during your opponent’s turn while within 3˝ of this before collapsing, all the while diverting fire from the rest of the thrall horde.
model, you can choose to have this model directly hit
instead. This model is automatically hit and suffers
all damage and effects. This model cannot use Shield When a brute thrall brings the full force of both its massive, piston-driven fists to
Guard while it is incorporeal, knocked down, or bear, it can easily smash the thickest armor plate. It batters warjacks apart, while
stationary.
HEAVY STEAMFIST
its meatier victims simply burst in a shower of gore. Its onslaughts result in a wide
COMBO STRIKE (HATTACK) – Make a melee attack. field of scattered metal, mangled body parts, and assorted unidentifiable debris—a
Instead of making a normal damage roll, the POW of truly gruesome sight even to those mostly numbed to ordinary atrocity.
the damage roll is equal to this model’s STR plus twice
the POW of this weapon.

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 NECROSURGEON & STITCH THRALLS
CRYX THRALL UNIT
After every battle, heaps of the dead and dying are attended by carrion scavengers
of the grisliest kind. Stitch thralls wander slowly through this charnel realm of
NECROSURGEON
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
6 4 5 4 14 12 7 flies and moans, crunching their way over ribcages and outstretched hands and
carefully taking in every detail. The stitch thralls gather these raw materials and
GUT SPLITTER
RNG POW P+S deliver them to their ghoulish masters: the necrosurgeons.
0.5 5 9
A necrosurgeon is a necrotech specialist tasked with maintaining thralls and
STITCH THRALL GRUNTS crafting replacements as they are destroyed in battle. Bent over carcasses and
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
6 4 3 4 14 12 7 attended by stitch thralls bearing fresh parts, the necrosurgeon drills, digs, and
sews enthusiastically. It quickly opens each body, living or dead, to add tubes
OFFICER’S DAMAGE:5
and pumps, then stitches together limbs of flesh and steel before finally bolting a
FA grease-stained furnace into place.
PC Necrosurgeon & 3 Grunts 4
2
BASE:SMALL As necrosurgeons sift through the piles of human debris their stitch thralls bring
them, they often set aside the choicest parts for personal augmentation. Many
feature an extra arm and hand cunningly linked to their body to speed their
NECROSURGEON
OFFICER
UNDEAD industrious work. They adopt a more casual approach to the improvement of their
BODY SNATCHER – When a Mechanithrall or living favored stitch thralls. Some necrosurgeons treat their assistants like beloved pets
model is destroyed within 5˝ of this model or a Grunt
in its unit that is in formation, this model gains the or children, whispering to them as they work, yet they think nothing of destroying
destroyed model’s corpse token. This model can have these same creations to make better use of their parts in another construct.
up to five corpse tokens at any time.
NECROSURGERY [d6] (HACTION) – RNG B2B. Target
friendly Faction undead model. If the model is in range,
The necromechanikal workshops on Cryx are more abattoir than laboratory. There,
remove d6 damage points from it. in the heart of the Empire, necrotechs are free to gather their gruesome resources
RESURRECTIONIST (HACTION) – Remove up to three
corpse tokens from this model to add one Grunt to a
openly. The meat markets and slave stalls of Blackwater and Dreggsmouth provide
friendly Mechanithrall unit in this model’s command them ample parts. Great harvests of bodies are delivered to them from the battlefields,
range for each token removed. Place these Grunts in
formation completely within 3˝ of this model. They either claimed by Cryx as fresh kills or scavenged from battles days old. With each
must forfeit their Combat Action the turn they are put wagonload, the Cryxian army grows even as its enemies’ forces diminish.
into play.
SACRIFICIAL PAWN [STITCH THRALL GRUNT OR
MECHANITHRALL] – When this model is directly hit TACTICAL TIPS
by an enemy ranged attack, you can have one friendly,
non-incorporeal Stitch Thrall Grunt or Mechanithrall Body Snatcher – Remember, if more than one model is eligible to collect a corpse token, the closest eligible
model within 3˝ of it directly hit instead. That model is model collects it.
automatically hit and suffers all damage and effects. Officer – Because the Necrosurgeon is an Officer, when it is destroyed it does not replace a Grunt in its unit.
STITCH THRALL GRUNTS Instead a Stitch Thrall Grunt becomes the unit commander.
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 SOULHUNTERS
CRYX THRALL UNIT
Silent, unrelenting, and terrible only begin to describe a soulhunter’s wake of death.
The bilious glow of necrotite burning deep within soulhunters lights their oily,
LEADER & GRUNTS
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
undead flesh and mottled iron plates. Fearless in undeath, they comb the darkness 9 7 6 4 14 14 8
seeking souls, both to empower themselves and to deliver to their cruel masters.
SCYTHE
RNG POW P+S
Among the most powerful thralls ever created, a soulhunter offers an unholy 2 6 13
vision of terror incarnate. Its menacing mass of plating, piping, gears, furnace, and
flesh is an amalgamation designed for swift ferocity. It boasts slick skin cured by SICKLE
RNG POW P+S
dark alchemy and inscribed with runes of thrall magic as well as a riveted carapace 0.5 4 11
handcrafted by necrotechs. Its enhanced flesh and musculature are unnaturally
fused with the powerful body of a Scharde-bred charger. The hungry necrotite MOUNT
RNG POW
furnace within its equine ribcage burns with a baleful corpse-fire, venting choking 0.5 10
black smoke from the ominous flues running along its reinforced spine.
DAMAGE: 5 EACH
The soulhunter’s mechanikal scythe paints its lethal wake with a spray of blood
Leader & 2 Grunts 11 FA
and entrails as it shreds through flesh and bone like summer chaff. Following the PC
Leader & 4 Grunts 18 2
plunge of its scythe is the hungry swipe of its black sickle, which almost seems BASE:LARGE
to sigh as it siphons the life force of the slain. Filthy emulsions distribute this
LEADER & GRUNTS
stolen essence through the soulhunter to enliven its undead flesh until the creature CAVALRY
releases it in a burst of killing power. Eager to claim the vitality of the living, these UNDEAD

fetid abominations scour the battlefield for any who would stand against them, REPOSITION [5˝] – At the end of an activation in which
it did not run or fail a charge, this model can advance
breathing in the souls that spill forth from their victims. up to 5˝, then its activation ends.
SOUL TAKER: BODY COUNT – This model can gain soul
tokens. When this model destroys a living enemy model
TACTICAL TIPS with an attack, this model gains the destroyed model’s
soul token. This model can have up to three soul tokens
Reposition – If a model is part of a unit, its activation does not end until all models in its unit have
at any time. This model can spend soul tokens for the
completed their activations. following:
Soul Taker: Body Count – Remember, if more than one model is eligible to collect a model’s soul token, • SOUL PHASE – This model can spend a soul token at
the closest eligible model collects it. If this model already has three soul tokens it is not eligible to collect any time during its activation to gain Incorporeal 
another one. for one turn.
• STRENGTH OF DEATH – During its Combat Action,
this model can spend soul tokens to boost one
attack or damage roll for each token spent.
SICKLE
LIFE DRINKER – When it destroys a living enemy
model with this weapon, immediately after the attack is
resolved this model can remove d3 damage points.

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 THE WITHERSHADOW COMBINE
CRYX IRON LICH UNIT
The Withershadow Combine has acted as one of the more subtle tools in Cryx’s
arsenal for five centuries. This trio of liches embodies the vast intelligence and
MAELOVUS 1, ADMONIA 1 & TREMULUS 1
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
5 7 7 4 13 15 7 premeditated malignance of Cryx. By combing through ruins and manipulating
agents to penetrate mainland cabals, they have gathered a massive collection
LICH CLAWS
RNG POW P+S of arcane lore, including many Orgoth secrets and other forgotten truths. The
0.5 5 12 Combine has served various lich lords over the last few centuries, though their
DAMAGE: 5 EACH
origins and ultimate agenda are unclear. They offer no threats or demands, only
respectful obedience and service.
FA
PC Maelovus, Admonia & Tremulus9
C Recorded sightings of Admonia, the eldest, date back to the early rebellion against
BASE:SMALL the Orgoth, which she apparently spent much time observing. She is particularly
fascinated with the origins of arcane magic on the mainland and has allegedly
ATTACHED – Before the start of the game, attach this
unit to a friendly Faction warcaster for the rest of plundered the ruins of notable arcane repositories from both sides. Passages
the game. Each Faction warcaster can have only one
model/unit attached to it.
in apocryphal journals suggest these include the excavation of the Arcanist’s
MAELOVUS 1 Academy, the lost ruins of the tower left by Scion Nivara, and the hidden grave of
OFFICER Scion Stacia. These tales must contain some truth, since the Thamarite cabal known
STEALTH
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as the Shroud seeks her destruction in the hope of recovering lost relics.
MAGIC ABILITY [7]
• DARK FIRE (HATTACK) – Dark Fire is a RNG 10,
Maelovus has access to lore never transcribed in book or scroll. The first recorded
POW 12 magic attack. When a living enemy model sighting of him was on the Sand Narrows during an outbreak of Brackriver plague.
is destroyed by Dark Fire, the spellcaster gains
the destroyed model’s soul token regardless of the Locals witnessed him reaping souls along this length of shore so often that they
proximity of other models. began to make offerings to him as an incarnation of death. One desperate village
• SPELL SLAVE (HACTION OR ATTACK) – This model
must be in its warcaster’s control range to make the sacrificed an entire generation of their children in his name. Crude statues bearing
Spell Slave special action. When it does, it casts one his likeness still rest in recessed crevices of this region’s dark cliffs.
of the spells on its warcaster’s card with a COST
of 3 or less. This model cannot cast upkeep spells
or spells with a RNG of SELF or CTRL. When Tremulus joined these two ancient horrors seven decades later, after a long tenure
casting an offensive spell, Spell Slave is a magic overseeing Cryx’s charnel pits. Fascinated with manipulating mortal minds,
attack. Use this model’s Magic Ability score when
making magic attack rolls. he infiltrated the sanctums of several arcane organizations throughout the Iron
SOUL TAKER: SOUL CAGE – This model can gain soul Kingdoms to pry loose their secrets. By his labors in later centuries, the Combine
tokens. When a living enemy model is destroyed within
2˝ of this model, this model gains the destroyed model’s gained a better understanding of mainland warjacks; the liches passed this
soul token. This model can have up to three soul tokens knowledge to Lich Lord Morbus, thereby affecting the development of a number
at any time. This model can spend soul tokens for the
following: of weapons systems. Though extremely intelligent, Tremulus is completely insane
• STRENGTH OF DEATH – During its Combat Action, by mortal reckoning. The twitching of his macabre marionette forces enemies to
this model can spend soul tokens to boost one
attack or damage roll for each token spent. respond in kind—a mystical manipulation that reflects what some might mistake
ADMONIA 1 for a sense of humor possessed by the peculiar lich lord.
STEALTH
UNDEAD Together these liches transcend their individual strengths. With coordinated
BLACK ARTS – A friendly Faction warcaster that has this incantations, the three harness energies that contort the very walls of reality. By
model in its control range can upkeep one spell without
spending focus points. conducting lengthy rituals at certain key astrological conjunctions, they can open a
MAGIC ABILITY [7]
yawning portal to deliver helljacks and bonejacks taken from the bowels of Cryx’s
• DARK FIRE (HATTACK) – See above.
• SIGIL OF POWER (HACTION) – RNG CMD. Target necrofactoriums, thereby reinforcing mainland armies. Future efforts in the war
friendly model/unit. If the model/unit is in range, abroad may reveal as yet untapped powers from this trio as mainlanders come to
its weapons gain Damage Type: Magical  . Sigil of
Power lasts for one turn. fear their horrific arcane ingenuity.
SOUL TAKER: SOUL CAGE – See above.
• STRENGTH OF DEATH – See above.
TACTICAL TIPS
TREMULUS 1
Attached – This model cannot be reassigned if its warcaster is destroyed or removed from play.
STEALTH
UNDEAD Magic Ability – Performing a Magic Ability special action or special attack counts as casting a spell.
MAGIC ABILITY [7] Officer – Because Maelovus is an Officer, when he is destroyed he does not replace another model in his
• DARK FIRE (HATTACK) – See above. unit. Instead Admonia or Tremulus becomes the new unit commander.
• PUPPET MASTER (HACTION OR ATTACK) – Puppet
Master is a RNG 10 spell. When it targets an enemy Soul Taker: Soul Cage – Remember, if more than one model is eligible to collect a model’s soul token,
model/unit, it is a magic attack. You can have one the closest eligible model collects it. If this model already has three soul tokens it is not eligible to collect
affected model reroll one attack or damage roll, another one.
then Puppet Master expires. Puppet Master lasts for Spell Slave – This model cannot cast spells if its warcaster is destroyed or removed from play. Spell Slave
one round.
does not confer the ability to channel spells as a warcaster.
SOUL TAKER: SOUL CAGE – See above.
• STRENGTH OF DEATH – See above.
LICH CLAWS
DAMAGE TYPE: MAGICAL

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 BLOAT THRALL
CRYX SOLO
Their taut flesh lined with livid, weeping seams and oozing sores, bloat thralls
are unliving reservoirs of caustic alchemical sludge that attackers and defenders
BLOAT THRALL
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
4 7 5 4 10 14 3 alike treat with apprehension. They shamble into battle by propelling themselves
forward on clattering claws. With their turgid forms bulging with acidic ooze
DESPOILER
RNG ROF AOE POW nearly to the point of bursting, they resemble huge, lurching ticks.
12 1 4 14
When an enemy comes within range, the bloat thrall quivers as if in seizure as it
BLUDGEON expels its contents at the target through a brass cannon alchemically treated to
RNG POW P+S
0.5 3 10 withstand corrosion. Upon impact, the viscous fluid quickly devours both flesh
and metal, and those who are struck endure screaming, bubbling deaths as the
DAMAGE:8
flesh sloughs from their bones. If a bloat thrall is ruptured, it explodes and showers
PC FA the surrounding area in corrosive foulness. The ultimate irony in battlefield design,
BASE:MEDIUM
4 2 this type of thrall is nearly as dangerous to destroy as it is to leave intact.
BLOAT THRALL Each bloat thrall is crudely assembled from the bodies of half a dozen men, with
UNDEAD
DEATH BLAST – When this model is disabled, center a
little regard for anatomy. Necrotechs may select as many as a dozen humans
5˝ AOE on it, then remove this model from play. Models and animals to be skinned alive in order to provide the necessary integument
in the AOE suffer the Corrosion continuous effect  .
to cover these monstrosities. Pieces of skin, left uncured, are stretched over the
STEADY – This model cannot become knocked down.
DESPOILER thrall’s mechanikal skeletal armature and stitched together. Finally, the grotesque
CONTINUOUS EFFECT: CORROSION necromantic construct is fitted with a thick iron valve mounted directly into its
DAMAGE TYPE: CORROSION
bowels, through which the thrall’s body is pumped full of caustic sludge before
ARCING FIRE – When attacking with this weapon, this
model can ignore intervening models except those each battle. The bloat thrall is an abomination in both form and function, and the
within 1˝ of the target. armies of the living are wise to fear it.

TACTICAL TIPS
Steady – Remember, even if a thrown model cannot be knocked down, it must still forfeit its Normal
Movement or Combat Action if it activates later in a turn it was thrown.

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 IRON LICH OVERSEER
CRYX SOLO
An iron lich overseer exists to extend the will of its masters and their machines beyond
their ordinary reach. Liches draw on the vitality of the souls they harvest to fight with
OVERSEER
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
terrible ferocity. The overseer slowly turns as the battle unfolds to allow each of its 6 7 6 3 14 16 9
three faces to survey the enemy as it unleashes volleys of soul-claiming arcane fire, all
FELL STAFF
the while delivering mental commands to the helljacks that follow it to war. RNG POW P+S
2 5 12
The first overseers were created in the aftermath of the annihilation of Drer
Drakkerung, when the Orgoth warwitches unleashed unparalleled destruction DAMAGE:8

upon the Cryxian army. The lich lords left no tool to decay, no matter how badly
PC FA
BASE:MEDIUM
damaged. This included powerful necromancers who had suffered massive 5 2
physical and mental trauma but were not entirely destroyed. Because of their
OVERSEER
unique skills and arcane talents a method was found to preserve them. ’JACK MARSHAL
UNDEAD
The restructured liches are composite beings with a single body and a unified CIRCULAR VISION – Models never gain a back strike
consciousness. The restoration process ensures some degree of cooperation bonus against this model.
DRIVE: DARK SHROUD – While in this model’s command
between these competing personalities, and in time they merge into a single range, a warjack under its control gains Dark Shroud.
mind—undeniably insane, but with heightened awareness as well as amplified (While in the melee range of a model with Dark
Shroud, enemy models suffer –2 ARM.)
cognitive and arcane powers. Following the success of these initial experiments, MAGIC ABILITY [7]
the lich lords began using the consciousness-blending process as a means of • CLOAK OF DARKNESS (HACTION) – This model gains
Stealth  . While a warjack this model controls is
punishing effective but willful servants. B2B with it, the warjack also gains Stealth . Cloak
of Darkness lasts for one round.
• DARK FIRE (HATTACK) – Dark Fire is a RNG 10,
TACTICAL TIPS POW 12 magic attack. When a living enemy model
Magic Ability – Performing a Magic Ability special action or special attack counts as casting a spell. is destroyed by Dark Fire, the spellcaster gains
the destroyed model’s soul token regardless of the
Soul Taker: Soul Cage – Remember, if more than one model is eligible to collect a model’s soul token, proximity of other models.
the closest eligible model collects it. If this model already has three soul tokens it is not eligible to collect SOUL TAKER: SOUL CAGE – This model can gain soul
another one. tokens. When a living enemy model is destroyed within
2˝ of this model, this model gains the destroyed model’s
soul token. This model can have up to three soul tokens
at any time. This model can spend soul tokens for the
following:
• SOUL-POWERED – During its Combat Action, this
model can spend soul tokens to make additional
melee attacks. It can make one additional attack for
each token spent.
• STRENGTH OF DEATH – During its Combat Action,
this model can spend soul tokens to boost one
attack or damage roll for each token spent.
FELL STAFF
DAMAGE TYPE: MAGICAL

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 MACHINE WRAITH
CRYX SOLO
Little is known about the nightmarish apparitions called machine wraiths, though
they are certainly some warped deviant of mechanikal artifice. Some speculate
MACHINE WRAITH
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
7 7 6 0 14 12 3 they are the bitter ghosts of arcane mechaniks or fallen priests of Cyriss; others
maintain they are fallen warcasters. Whatever their origin, their howling, metallic
MECHANO-CLAWS
RNG POW P+S calls chill even the staunchest warrior to the marrow.
1 5 12
Machine wraiths are both ghostly and mechanikal. They drift as specters among
PC FA
BASE:MEDIUM Cryxian armies, drawn to all powerful mechanikal items but particularly warjack
2 3
cortexes. When a wraith reaches a warjack, it insinuates itself into the victim
MACHINE WRAITH machine’s cortex with a ghastly shriek to take temporary control of the ’jack and
INCORPOREAL wreak bloody havoc on the living. Even the most potent warcasters must struggle
UNDEAD
MECHANO-CLAWS
to regain control of a wraith-seized ’jack.
DARK DOMINATION – When this model hits an enemy
warjack that has a non-crippled cortex with a basic
A machine wraith that has exerted its will on a warjack briefly becomes corporeal
melee attack made with this weapon during this and vulnerable to attack, although it is dangerous even in this weakened state:
model’s activation, you can take control of the warjack.
Immediately after the attack has been resolved, you more than one mechanik has found himself the victim of those wicked and
can make a full advance with the warjack and can then surprisingly solid claws.
make one basic attack, then Dark Domination expires.
The enemy warjack cannot be targeted by free strikes
during this movement. A warjack can be affected by
Dark Domination only once per turn.

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 NECROTECH & SCRAP THRALLS
CRYX SOLOS
Part necromancer and part evil genius—spiced with a dash of deranged lunatic—
Lord Toruk’s necrotechs blend talent and terror. Tasked with the details of
NECROTECH
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
constructing the undead soldiers and machines of the Cryxian army, they deliver 5 6 6 3 12 13 7
steady reinforcements to the lines and do not hesitate to use their own dead flesh
VISE CLAW
to test ingenious attachments and necromechanikal augmentations. RNG POW P+S
2 4 10
When not designing the next wave of horrors, necrotechs skitter into battle with
their “pretty little children.” They are quickly able to repair their infernal constructs DAMAGE:5

using whatever materials fate and carnage provide.

PC FA
BASE:MEDIUM
2 3
Necrotechs improvise scrap thralls from heaps of bone and metal taken from corpses
and destroyed ’jacks. Once animated, these thralls shamble forth as delivery vehicles for NECROTECH
necrotite-enhanced bombs. Likely to explode when struck by shrapnel or a wayward UNDEAD
CREATE SCRAP THRALL (HACTION) – Remove one or
bullet, each ramshackle undead seeks to grab and hold an enemy in its unrelenting more scrap tokens from this model, then roll a d3 for
clutch until the bomb detonates in a shower of metal-and-bone destruction. These each scrap token removed. Place up to that number
of Scrap Thralls into play completely within 3˝ of this
hastily contrived creatures suggest the hideous potential a necrotech can unleash with model. A placed Scrap Thrall must forfeit its Combat
enough time, the necessary materials, and a proper workshop. Action the turn it is put into play.
REPAIR [d6] (HACTION) – RNG B2B. Target friendly
Faction construct model. If the model is in range,
remove d6 damage points from it.
TACTICAL TIPS
SPARE PARTS – When a warjack is destroyed in this
Create Scrap Thrall – The number of Scrap Thralls that can be created is not limited by FA. model’s command range, it gains one scrap token. This
Death Burst – This model can make a Death Burst special attack even if it charges. model can have up to three scrap tokens at any time.
Before making a Repair roll, this model can spend one
Steady – Remember, even if a thrown model cannot be knocked down, it must still forfeit its Normal scrap token to add +2 to its roll.
Movement or Combat Action if it activates later in a turn it was thrown. STEADY – This model cannot become knocked down.

SCRAP THRALL
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
5 4 5 3 11 12 1

MECHANO-CLAW
RNG POW P+S
0.5 4 8

FA
PC 3 Scrap Thralls 2
3
BASE:SMALL

SCRAP THRALL
UNDEAD
THRALL BOMB – When this model is disabled, center
a 4˝ AOE on it, then remove this model from play.
Models in the AOE are hit and suffer a POW 8 blast
damage roll.
MECHANO-CLAW
DEATH BURST (HATTACK) – This model makes a melee
attack. If that attack hits, instead of dealing damage
normally, center a 4˝ AOE on the model hit and remove
this model from play. The model hit suffers a POW 16
damage roll. If the attack misses, center the AOE on
this model and remove this model from play. Other than
the model directly hit, models in the AOE are hit and
suffer a POW 8 blast damage roll. Death Burst damage
is unboostable.

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 PISTOL WRAITH
CRYX SOLO
The duelists of the Iron Kingdoms know they can never master their deadly art
without taking the lives of others. Those who fall to a worthy adversary should
PISTOL WRAITH
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
6 4 4 7 14 12 5 pass to Urcaen—yet some feel cheated of their chance at the gunman’s fabled
immortality. Unable to find rest, these spirits walk the earth searching for fresh
WRAITHLOCK PISTOL
RNG ROF AOE POW victims. Even those gunmen who die as part of the natural order sometimes linger
10 1 — 12 rather than passing on. They cling desperately to their memories of life or are
DAMAGE:5
simply too hate-filled to rest.

Necromancers of Cryx have become adept at singling out these reluctant souls. They
PC FA
BASE:SMALL
5 2 pillage the graves of prestigious gunmen, stealing the bones of the most ruthless.
Those who join their ranks become some of the most feared agents of Cryx.
PISTOL WRAITH
GUNFIGHTER
Even bound in service to the Nightmare Empire, these wraiths haunt the living to
INCORPOREAL
UNDEAD test their deadly skills against any who will take the challenge. Those who refuse
SOUL TAKER: BODY COUNT – This model can gain soul are gunned down at once, but even those who accept the invitation rarely survive;
tokens. When this model destroys a living enemy
model with an attack, this model gains the destroyed the specters react with a rapidity the living cannot hope to match. Each killing
model’s soul token. This model can have up to three infuses the wraith with unholy energy, but such deaths never fully slake its thirst.
soul tokens at any time. This model can spend soul
tokens for the following:
• STRENGTH OF DEATH – During its Combat Action,
Those targets who somehow survive the first shot from a pistol wraith find themselves
this model can spend soul tokens to boost one slowed by the chill of the grave. Their reactions delayed, they can only watch in
attack or damage roll for each token spent.
horror as the apparition levels its wraithlock pistol with malicious glee to end them.
WRAITHLOCK PISTOL
DAMAGE TYPE: MAGICAL
CHAIN ATTACK: DEATH CHILL – If this model hits TACTICAL TIPS
the same model with both its initial attacks with this
Soul Taker: Body Count – Remember, if more than one model is eligible to collect a model’s soul token,
weapon, the model hit becomes stationary for one round.
the closest eligible model collects it. If this model already has three soul tokens it is not eligible to collect
another one.

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 SKARLOCK THRALL
CRYX SOLO
Skarlock thralls are insidious creatures of blackest sorcery. Linked to their
warcasters by bonds so powerful they can act in their masters’ stead, skarlocks
SKARLOCK THRALL
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
move against enemies with confidence born of a hateful intelligence that shines 6 4 3 3 14 12 5
from their eye sockets.
CLAWS
RNG POW P+S
Unique beings, skarlock thralls can possess extensive personalities and agendas. 0.5 2 6
More than any other constructed thrall, skarlocks retain the memories and lore
they gained during life in addition to knowledge absorbed during the inscription DAMAGE:5

of their animating runes. From its very fabrication, each skarlock is inextricably PC FA
BASE:SMALL
bound to its master and is incapable of disloyalty. A dense inlay of dark sigils 4 1
blackens their bones and desiccated flesh, instilling tremendous necromantic
ATTACHED – Before the start of the game, attach this
power and sorcerous potential into their physical forms. model to a friendly Faction warcaster for the rest of
the game. Each Faction warcaster can have only one
As part of the bonding process, skarlocks become conduits for the unique arcane model/unit attached to it.

abilities of their warcasters, who often send them forth to unleash this power from SKARLOCK THRALL
UNDEAD
a distance. Lesser minions make every effort to appease the creatures, knowing MAGIC ABILITY [6]
that each represents the eyes and ears of a malevolent and powerful master. • DARK FIRE (HATTACK) – Dark Fire is a RNG 10,
POW 12 magic attack. When a living enemy model
is destroyed by Dark Fire, the spellcaster gains
TACTICAL TIPS the destroyed model’s soul token regardless of the
proximity of other models.
Attached – This model cannot be reassigned if its warcaster is destroyed or removed from play. • SPELL SLAVE (HACTION OR ATTACK) – This model
Magic Ability – Performing a Magic Ability special action or special attack counts as casting a spell. must be in its warcaster’s control range to make the
Spell Slave special action. When it does, it casts one
Soul Taker: Soul Cage – Remember, if more than one model is eligible to collect a model’s soul token, of the spells on its warcaster’s card with a COST
the closest eligible model collects it. If this model already has three soul tokens it is not eligible to collect of 3 or less. This model cannot cast upkeep spells
another one. or spells with a RNG of SELF or CTRL. When
Spell Slave – This model cannot cast spells if its warcaster is destroyed or removed from play. Spell Slave casting an offensive spell, Spell Slave is a magic
attack. Use this model’s Magic Ability score when
does not confer the ability to channel spells as a warcaster.
making magic attack rolls.
SOUL TAKER: SOUL CAGE – This model can gain soul
tokens. When a living enemy model is destroyed
within 2˝ of this model, this model gains the destroyed
model’s soul token. This model can have up to three
soul tokens at any time. This model can spend soul
tokens for the following:
• STRENGTH OF DEATH – During its Combat Action,
this model can spend soul tokens to boost one
attack or damage roll for each token spent.

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 SOUL TRAPPER
CRYX THRALL SOLO
Every soul that escapes the Nightmare Empire in its battles is seen as a wasted
opportunity. Unsatisfied with this inefficiency, the lich lords tasked the Cryxian
SOUL TRAPPER
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
5 4 5 3 11 12 10 necromancers with devising a thrall that shared the insatiable hunger of its masters.
The necromancers answered with the soul trapper.
MECHANO-CLAW
RNG POW P+S
0.5 4 8
The soul trapper treads the front lines with both eagerness and desperation. The
thrall continually wrests souls of the recently departed from the air, its limbs
PC FA
BASE:SMALL darting here and there like the workings of a manic threshing machine. It crams its
1 6
stolen harvest into prepared chambers functioning as soul cages within its body,
SOUL TRAPPER where the trapper becomes their keeper until they can be transferred to other,
UNDEAD mightier entities.
SOUL TAKER: COLLECTOR – This model can gain soul
tokens. When a living enemy model is destroyed while
in this model’s command range, this model gains the
The runes carved upon the undead flesh within the soul trapper’s carapace imbue
destroyed model’s soul token. This model can have up the creation with an incessant need to gather as many souls as possible, seeking
to three soul tokens at any time. This model can spend
soul tokens for the following: to ease a hunger that never relents. Once the thrall claims souls, they are soon
• SOUL TRANSFER (HACTION) – RNG 5. Target seized by its superiors, leaving it nothing but a sense of emptiness and craving.
friendly Faction model with a Soul Taker special
rule. If the model is in range, remove any number The screams of tormented souls can be heard echoing from its ribcage long after
of soul tokens from this model and place them on they have gone. Despite being driven mainly by its insatiable appetite for fresh
the friendly model.
souls, the soul trapper possesses intelligence superior to that of most thralls, which
makes it self-sufficient—and all the more treacherous.

TACTICAL TIPS
Soul Taker: Collector – Remember, if more than one model is eligible to collect a model’s soul token,
the closest eligible model collects it. If this model already has three soul tokens it is not eligible to collect
another one.
Soul Transfer – This does not allow the target model to exceed the maximum number of soul tokens it
can have.

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 WARWITCH SIREN
CRYX SOLO
Cryxian warwitches embody some of the darkest traditions in all of Immoren. Long
ago, Orgoth tyrants used warwitches as living instruments of atrocity and mass
SIREN
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
destruction. The presence of a single warwitch could inflict crippling losses in the 7 5 6 4 14 13 5
face of defeat or even turn the tide of battle completely. When the Scharde Islanders
SHADOW BLADE
inherited the shattered vestiges of the last bastion of the Orgoth Empire, a handful RNG POW P+S
of witches were taken alive to fulfill the Dragonfather’s wish to add their power 2 6 11

to his armies. The witches were given a choice: trade their knowledge in exchange DAMAGE:5
for their lives or perish—and give up their secrets to forensic necromancy. A new
warwitch tradition was born from these slaves. PC FA
BASE:SMALL
4 2
Centuries later, Cryxian warwitches have become among the most dangerous of
SIREN
Toruk’s servants. They receive no formal training, only ritual indoctrination. Those PARRY
who survive the rites emerge as ruthless killers, as cold in spirit as the shadows STEALTH
MAGIC ABILITY [6]
in which they are clad. This occult sisterhood now serves Toruk as sorcerous field • EMPOWER (HACTION) – RNG CMD. Target friendly
commanders, subservient to the lich lords as they once were to the Orgoth tyrants. Faction warjack. If the target warjack is in range
and it was suffering Disruption, it is no longer
They have refined their arcane powers over time, and the witches called sirens disrupted. The warjack also gains 1 focus point.
• SEDUCTION (HACTION) – Take control of a living
enjoy seducing their enemies before annihilating them. Sirens are able to confuse enemy non-warcaster, non-warlock warrior model
their victims by occluding their minds in darkness and forcing them to forget B2B with this model. You can immediately make
a full advance with the enemy model followed by
their deeper loyalties temporarily. The blades the sirens wield can similarly turn a basic melee attack, then Seduction expires. The
an enemy’s own shadow against him to hold him in place while other Cryxian enemy model cannot be targeted by free strikes
during this movement. A model can be affected by
elements close for the kill. Seduction only once per turn.
• VENOM (HATTACK) – Venom is a RNG SP 8 magic
attack. Models hit suffer a POW 10 corrosion
TACTICAL TIPS damage roll  and the Corrosion continuous
effect  .
Magic Ability – Performing a Magic Ability special action or special attack counts as casting a spell.
SHADOW BLADE
DAMAGE TYPE: MAGICAL
SHADOW BIND – A model hit by this weapon suffers
Shadow Bind for one round. (A model suffering
Shadow Bind suffers –3 DEF, and for one round when
it advances it cannot move except to change facing.
Shadow Bind can be shaken.)

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 AIAKOS, SCOURGE OF THE MEREDIUS
CRYX SOLO
Having honed his skills through years of piracy upon the Meredius, Aiakos
FOCUS: 4
moves effortlessly with his battlegroup like a specter of death both at sea and on
AIAKOS 1
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
6 6 6 5 14 14 6 land, striking down foes with wicked effectiveness. Nowhere is his cruelty more
apparent than in his weapon of choice: a chained harpoon he uses to impale his
HARPOON
RNG ROF AOE POW victims before reeling them in to deliver the death blow.
6 1 — 10
Aiakos’ reputation is a credit to his cunning, ruthlessness, and indomitable will.
BLADE He began as a lowly Scharde Islander trying to carve out a place for himself on the
RNG POW P+S
0.5 6 12 unforgiving streets of Blackwater. All who lived there aspired to the free life of a
raider, and when Aiakos saw his chance to secure a position aboard a raiding ship
DAMAGE:5
he took it, mercilessly making an example of those who tried to stand in his way.
PC FA By the time his warcaster ability manifested, he was already feared and respected.
BASE:SMALL
4 C
Though he knows his way around a ship, Aiakos’ true motivation has never been
AIAKOS 1 the simple joys of plunder or even the excitement of chasing prey at sea. Simply put,
STEALTH
BATTLEGROUP CONTROLLER – This model is not a
raiding affords him endless opportunities for battle. A silent stalker who exploits
warcaster but has the following warcaster special rules: an enemy’s fears to his advantage, he eagerly anticipates being dropped ashore
Battlegroup Commander, Focus Manipulation, Power
Field, and Spellcaster. This model must have at least to terrorize mainlanders under the cover of darkness. It is blood sport he relishes
one warjack in its battlegroup at the start of the game. most, along with the freedom he has found as part of the fleet led by Admiral
JUMP – After it makes a full advance during its Normal
Movement but before it performs its Combat Action,
Axiara Wraithblade. Other raiders on any ship he chooses to join give him a wide
you can place this model anywhere completely within berth, knowing he is not truly one of them. Captains of the fleet obey him, as he has
5˝ of its current location. Any effects that prevent
charging also prevent this model from using Jump. gained the favor of their admiral, who rarely deigns to speak the praises of anyone.
HARPOON
Aiakos has already earned infamy through deeds both brazen and savage. He took
DAMAGE TYPE: MAGICAL
DRAG – When this weapon damages an enemy model part in Pirate Queen Skarre Ravenmane’s raid on Port Vladovar, where he helped
with an equal or smaller base, immediately after the break the port garrison by slaughtering officers in front of their men. His name is
attack is resolved the damaged model can be pushed
directly toward this model until it contacts a model, an whispered in dread among coastal communities from northern Khador to southern
obstacle, or an obstruction. After the damaged model
is moved, this model can make one basic melee attack
Cygnar, where he has left grisly trophies in the husks of the villages he has burned
against the damaged model. After resolving this melee to the ground. His deeds have started to draw the attention of Cryx’s generals,
attack, this model can make additional melee attacks
during its Combat Action. who wonder whether he might be shaped into something more interesting than
BLADE simple cannon fodder.
DAMAGE TYPE: MAGICAL
More than anything, Aiakos prizes his autonomy. He answers when called to
SPELLS COST RNG AOE POW DUR OFF battle but takes his leave as soon as his responsibilities are fulfilled. This aloofness
DEATHBRINGERS 2 SELF
CTRL – TURN
NO
While within the spellcaster’s control range, the melee
extends to his approach on the battlefield. He prefers to strike from the shadows,
weapons of models in its battlegroup gain Grievous separate from the main force, using his arcane power and physical agility to catch
Wounds. Deathbringers lasts for one turn. (A model hit
by a weapon with Grievous Wounds loses Tough  and his prey unaware. It is in those moments when his blade tears away an opponent’s
cannot have damage removed from it for one round.) life that he feels his own freedom most keenly.
ESCORT 2 SELF
CTRL – UP NO
Warjacks in the spellcaster’s battlegroup beginning
their activations in its control range gain +2˝ movement TACTICAL TIPS
when advancing as part of their Normal Movement.
Battlegroup Controller – This model is a non-warcaster model and is not affected by special rules that
The spellcaster gains +2 ARM while one or more
warjacks in its battlegroup are within 3˝ of  it. specifically affect warcasters. Models with the Attached rule cannot be attached to this model.

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 BLOAT THRALL OVERSEER MOBIUS
CRYX SOLO
The necrofactoriums of Skell are home to countless necrotechs of varying talent
and genius, each of them working in secret on vile experiments and weapons. This
MOBIUS 1
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
4 7 6 5 10 14 7 chaotic system largely lacks in direct oversight, especially since Master Necrotech
Mortenebra left for the mainland. Necrotechs that impress the lich lords prosper,
DESPOILER
RNG ROF AOE POW while those who commit resources to costly failures are soon liquidated. Many of
12 1 4 14 their experiments end in failure, wasting lives, corpses, and metal, but sometimes
BLUDGEON something unique and deadly is born. Constructed from specialized runes in a
RNG POW P+S facility that had been exposed to the strength of Lord Toruk’s blight, Mobius was
0.5 3 10
an unexpected achievement.
DAMAGE:8
Most thralls are simple and mindless, but Mobius possesses an awareness of the
PC FA battlefield and a basic yet undeniable ability to learn and adapt that sets it apart.
BASE:MEDIUM
6 C It seems to have an affinity for other bloat thralls and exercises an undeniable
MOBIUS 1 influence over them, guiding them to fulfill the will of greater Cryxian masters.
UNDEAD It was not originally designed for this leadership capacity but appears to have
BATTLE PLAN – This model can use one of the developed it on its own, suggesting that perhaps its creation included more
following plans at any time during its activation. A
friendly Faction model can be affected by only one complex animating glyphs than necrotechs would typically use outside of a
plan each turn. skarlock’s making.
• RUSH FORWARD – RNG 5. Target Bloat Thrall
model. If the model is in range, it gains Assault 
for one turn.
Mobius arose from an experiment to determine whether a thrall could be made that
• SCUTTER – RNG 5. Target friendly Bloat might survive the destructive blast of a bloat thrall, to be reattached afterward and
Thrall model. If the model is in range, it gains
Reposition [3˝] for one turn. (At the end of an
reused. In this capacity Mobius performed surpassingly well. Preliminary tests
activation in which it did not run or fail a charge, on Scharde villagers living north of Skell proved to its insane creator that Mobius
a model with Reposition [3˝] can advance up to 3˝,
then its activation ends.) could successfully lead bloat thralls against the enemy without prematurely
• SPOTTER – RNG 5. Target friendly Bloat Thrall detonating the thralls or destroying itself in the process. In recognition of his
model. If the model is in range, it gains +2 RAT
when making its next AOE ranged attack this turn.
success, this thrall’s creator was unleashed on other projects in the hopes that his
If the attack does not directly hit, you can reroll the unusual genius will yield additional gains.
direction and/or distance of its deviation. Each roll
can be rerolled only once as a result of Spotter.
Each time it has been sent to battle and survived the depletion of its host, its
DEATH BLAST – When this model is disabled, center
a 5˝ AOE on it, then remove this model from play. intelligence and awareness has grown. Armed with a specialized despoiler cannon
Models in the AOE suffer the Corrosion continuous and sewn to the back of a bloat thrall, Mobius is deployed by the forces of Cryx
effect  .
STEADY – This model cannot become knocked down. when they need to either annihilate hardened targets or to spread the terror of
VETERAN LEADER [BLOAT THRALL] – While in this horrifying deaths. Mobius seems to enjoy watching living things melt under sprays
model’s command range, other friendly Bloat Thrall
models gain +1 to attack rolls. of bile, as if amused by their loss of form. Mobius can command its bloat thralls to
DESPOILER fire with frightening precision, launching brutal assaults or repositioning them as
CONTINUOUS EFFECT: CORROSION they issue volley after volley of corrosive bile.
DAMAGE TYPE: CORROSION
ARCING FIRE – When attacking with this weapon, this
model can ignore intervening models except those TACTICAL TIPS
within 1˝ of the target.
Steady – Remember, even if a thrown model cannot be knocked down, it must still forfeit its Normal
Movement or Combat Action if it activates later in a turn it was thrown.

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CRYX WRAITH SOLO
A malevolent specter born of Cryxian magic, the Hellslinger Phantom resembles
the infamous pistol wraiths often seen in service to the Nightmare Empire, but it
HELLSLINGER PHANTOM 1
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
6 4 4 8 15 13 5 commands power of an altogether greater scale. Since its creation, the phantom
has been conducting an ongoing murder spree, its incorporeal nature placing it
WRAITHSTORM PISTOL
RNG ROF AOE POW beyond the reach of all who have tried to put an end to its grim harvest. It has
10 1 — 12 ended countless innocent lives with its uncanny wraithstorm pistols, and there is
DAMAGE:5
no indication it will ever stop.

No one is certain of what the phantom truly is or the nature of its origins, but
PC FA
BASE:SMALL
7 C witnesses say it bears a striking resemblance to the Cygnaran warcaster Allister
Caine, a man who allegedly abandoned his duty to his nation in the days following
HELLSLINGER PHANTOM 1
GUNFIGHTER
the end of the Second Cygnaran Civil War and then disappeared. Some claim that
INCORPOREAL Caine was already hunted down by the Cygnaran Reconnaissance Service and
UNDEAD
SOUL TAKER: BODY COUNT – This model can gain soul
executed for treason. These rumormongers think the phantom might be Caine’s
tokens. When this model destroys a living enemy ghost, cursed to roam the land bringing death to anyone who crosses the gun
model with an attack, this model gains the destroyed
model’s soul token. This model can have up to three mage, a pistol wraith without equal. Others argue it is the product of dark magic,
soul tokens at any time. This model can spend soul whispering that Caine unleashed an unholy shadow of himself upon those who
tokens for the following:
• STRENGTH OF DEATH – During its Combat Action,
stalked him. All that can be confirmed is that this remorseless phantom has left a
this model can spend soul tokens to boost one trail of blood and carnage wherever it has appeared.
attack or damage roll for each token spent.
SWIFT HUNTER – When this model destroys one The Hellslinger Phantom was first spotted in a remote town in northern Cygnar,
or more enemy models with a basic ranged attack,
immediately after the attack is resolved it can advance where it slaughtered a large number of innocent civilians. Within a few short days
up to 2˝. dozens of murders were committed, and witnesses reported a similar culprit in
WRAITHSTORM PISTOL
all cases. The fact that the elusive murderer was supernatural in origin was soon
DAMAGE TYPE: MAGICAL
ATTACK TYPE – Each time this weapon is used to make made apparent both in the nature of the murders and its ability to vanish from
an attack, choose one of the following special rules: the scenes of its crimes. The phantom’s bloody rampage has reached as far as the
• CRITICAL GRIEVOUS WOUNDS – On a critical hit, a
model hit by this weapon loses Tough  and cannot city of Bainsmarket, its victims ranging from hapless innocent residents to city
have damage removed from it for one round. authorities and members of local street gangs.
• GHOST SHOT – This model ignores LOS,
concealment, and cover when making attacks with Each day the wraith roams free, the body count mounts. The phantom represents a
this weapon.
• INCENDIARY – This attack causes fire damage  , singular asset in Cryx’s arsenal—a cunning undead operative that works to further
and models hit suffer the Fire continuous effect  . the agendas of its unknown master. There is no telling what other dark deeds the
RELOAD [1] – This model can spend one soul token to
make one additional ranged attack with this weapon malevolent spirit might set its sights on in the future.
during its Combat Action.

TACTICAL TIPS
Soul Taker: Body Count – Remember, if more than one model is eligible to collect a model’s soul token,
the closest eligible model collects it. If this model already has three soul tokens it is not eligible to collect
another one.

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CRYX SOLO
Darragh Wrathe is among Cryx’s most fearsome living leaders. He was once a cruel
and sorcerous pirate in the service of Cryx, but his blight-wracked body began to
WRATHE 1
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
8/6 7 7 4 14 17/15 9 fail him as he internalized the corruption of Lord Toruk. Despite his deteriorating
health, Wrathe considers this wasting disease a blessing, proof that the Dragon
NECRO-SCYTHE
RNG POW P+S Lord’s energies flow through him and empower his sorcery.
2 6 13
Eventually Wrathe retired from the sea and came to Skell as a black-garbed
MOUNT pilgrim, hoping he might find those who would replace his heart and lungs among
RNG POW
0.5 12 its necrofactoriums and the Church of Toruk. He entered the service of Lich Lord
Terminus and began to immerse himself in the necromantic lore permeating the
MOUNTED DAMAGE: 10
city. Terminus saw Wrathe’s potential and shaped him into his personal agent and
DISMOUNTED DAMAGE: 5
vassal. Wrathe hopes in time to give up the remnants of his mortality and join the
PC FA ageless horrors he reveres. He feels immense satisfaction every time he replaces
9 C
some part of himself with more timeless mechanika.
BASE (MOUNTED): LARGE
BASE (DISMOUNTED): SMALL This satisfaction is one of the last identifiably human emotions Wrathe still
WRATHE 1 experiences. As he has transformed his body into a more fitting vessel for one of
CAVALRY Toruk’s most devoted servants, so have his mind and soul changed. For decades
BATTLE WIZARD – Once per turn, when this model Wrathe has watched as the machinations of the lich lords, and thereby the wishes
destroys one or more enemy models with a melee attack
during its activation, immediately after the attack is of the Dragonfather, have moved inexorably forward. This inevitability left a
resolved it can make one Magic Ability special attack or strong impression on Wrathe. Since that time he has viewed the decay of his body
special action.
DRAGOON – While mounted, this model has base SPD 8 and the subsequent necessity of unholy prosthetics as marks of progress toward
and base ARM 17. While dismounted, it has base attaining a form worthy of the Dragonfather’s favor. With each necrotite-powered
SPD 6 and base ARM 15 and loses Reposition [3˝].
MAGIC ABILITY [7] augmentation he strips away the weak flesh of mortality and strengthens his
• DEATH RIDE (HACTION) – Friendly Faction undead connection to Toruk’s death-laden power.
models activating in this model’s command range
gain +1˝ movement when advancing as part of their
Normal Movement. Death Ride lasts for one turn.
Wrathe is bound in direct service to Lich Lord Terminus, whom he serves as a field
• HELLFIRE (HATTACK) – Hellfire is a RNG 10, commander and master necromancer. He travels across western Immoren in this
POW 14 magic attack. Models disabled by Hellfire
cannot make a Tough roll. Models boxed by Hellfire
capacity, often accompanied by an escort of soulhunters. Wrathe feels a connection
are removed from play. to the flayed riders he commands, and he is particularly adept at creating such
• MORTAL FEAR (HACTION) – While in this model’s
unholy steeds.
command range, living enemy models suffer –2 to
damage rolls. Mortal Fear lasts for one round.
REPOSITION [3˝] – At the end of an activation in which
Over the years Wrathe has become more machine than man as he has replaced
it did not run or fail a charge, this model can advance the spoiled portions of his flesh with necromechanikal substitutes. His hollow
up to 3˝, then its activation ends.
chest contains a mass of foul pumps and black-iron organs that keep blood and
NECRO-SCYTHE
DAMAGE TYPE: MAGICAL bile flowing to what organs and flesh he retains. Armored plates grafted over
his broken flesh protect this churning machinery. Wrathe replaced his lower jaw
with bands of steel and speaks in a quavering buzz through a grill in his throat.
The mechanikal appendage replacing his left arm ends in sharp claws. Pistons
reinforce the bones of his right arm, with muscles, sinew, and skin stitched around
the skeletal armature.

Darragh Wrathe executes his orders with conviction. When astride his steed and
in command of Cryx’s swiftest horrors, he proves his eagerness for any excuse
to push his might to its limit. His devotion to Toruk arises not as an expedient to
power but from zealous faith in the Dragon God, for Wrathe idolizes the warped
strength of the Dragonfather.

TACTICAL TIPS
Hellfire – Because the boxed model is removed from play before being destroyed, it does not generate a
soul or corpse token.
Magic Ability – Performing a Magic Ability special action or special attack counts as casting a spell.

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CRYX BATTLE ENGINE
The Wraith Engine is guided by a malignant intelligence bound to diabolical
machineries. It lurches across the battlefield with the clamor of grinding steel and
WRAITH ENGINE
SPD STR MAT RAT DEF ARM CMD
7 10 7 4 12 18 10 the incessant wailing of the discarnate dead caged within its frame. Untethered
to a fixed, cohesive form, the battle engine slips between spectral and corporeal
SCYTHING BLADE
RNG POW P+S states, sowing death and despair throughout the enemy’s ranks. Those who do
L 2 5 15 not flee are cut down like wheat before the scythe, their souls reaped to feed its
SCYTHING BLADE hideous engines. Each part of the machine is inhabited by tortured, fragmented
RNG POW P+S spirits trapped for eternity. It is suffused with the power of the grave; an echo of
2 5 15
the void manifests in its presence and strengthens the ghostly dead that walk in
R

DAMAGE:20 its shadow. Its malignance saps the vitality of the physical world, rotting iron and
spoiling flesh that ventures too close.
PC FA
BASE:HUGE
15 2 The Wraith Engine’s present form draws on knowledge gleaned from centuries of
WRAITH ENGINE necromantic research and refinement; Cryxian scholars have extensively studied
CONSTRUCT the nature of the void and occult power. Lich Lord Tenebrous has stood at the
INCORPOREAL forefront of these efforts, never hesitating to coerce and threaten the most brilliant
UNDEAD
CLEAVE – When this model destroys one or more and depraved minds of the Scharde Islands to labor on his private projects. In the
enemy models with a basic melee attack during its Wraith Engine they succeeded in creating a terrible machine that draws power
Combat Action, immediately after the attack is resolved
this model can make one additional melee attack. This from refined necrotite and from the pure, malevolent energies of the void to distort
model can gain only one additional attack from Cleave the fabric of the physical world.
each activation.
DARK SHROUD – While in this model’s melee range,
enemy models suffer –2 ARM.
Cryxian necrotechs ritually sacrificed hundreds of living victims in the creation of
INSCRUTABLE – Opponents cannot take control of this the Wraith Engine, employing an exacting process that bound the spirits within
model.
the machine’s numerous receptive components. Necrotechs had etched these
SOUL BONDAGE – Once per round when a living enemy
warrior model is boxed while within 2˝ of this model, mechanisms with blasphemous, binding runes, amalgamating the spirits into a
you can remove the boxed model from play and replace
it with a Machine Wraith solo.
collective machine intelligence loyal to its Cryxian masters.
UNHALLOWED – While in this model’s command range,
other friendly Faction models with Incorporeal  gain As this apparatus powers up, it oscillates between the physical world and the
+2 ARM and do not suffer blast damage. nightmare of the void. Tendrils of shadow manifest around it, feasting upon light
itself as the engine roars. The mere presence of a Wraith Engine wounds the mortal
world. The raw energies of the void roiling around the machine cloud its victims’
eyes and weaken their resilience. Knowing the Wraith Engine’s mindless thirst for
death will never be slaked, its masters keep it chained until it can feast unhindered
600 ar 22 ft 6 in 16 tons
on the field of battle.

unknown unknown
TACTICAL TIPS
TWIN SCYTHING BLADE CLAWS,
VOID OSCILLATOR Soul Bondage – Because Soul Bondage causes a boxed model to be removed from play before it is
destroyed, the Wraith Engine cannot trigger Cleave from a model it replaced with a Machine Wraith.

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 BANE WITCH AGATHIA
Warcaster

IRON LICH ASPHYXIOUS

Warcaster

CAPTAIN AIAKOS
Warcaster

ASPHYXIOUS THE
HELLBRINGER
& VOCIFERON
LICH LORD ASPHYXIOUS Warcaster & Skarlock
Warcaster Thrall Solo

GORESHADE THE CURSED

Warcaster

GORESHADE
THE BASTARD
& DEATHWALKER
Warcaster Unit GORESHADE,
LORD OF RUIN
Warcaster

LORD EXHUMATOR
SCAVEROUS
MASTER NECROTECH Warcaster
MORTENEBRA & DERYLISS
Warcaster & Skarlock Thrall Solo

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 STURGIS THE CORRUPTED
Warcaster

PIRATE QUEEN SKARRE

Satyxis Warcaster
SKARRE, QUEEN OF
THE BROKEN COAST
Satyxis Warcaster

DENEGHRA, THE SOUL WEAVER

Battle Engine Warcaster

WRAITH WITCH
DENEGHRA
Warcaster
WARWITCH DENEGHRA
Warcaster

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 LICH LORD TERMINUS
Warcaster

LICH LORD VENETHRAX

Warcaster

THE WITCH COVEN OF GARLGHAST

& EGREGORE
Warcasters & Solo

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 DEATHRIPPER
Light Warjack

CORRUPTOR
Heavy Warjack

DEFILER
Light Warjack

DESECRATOR
Heavy Warjack

INFLICTOR
Heavy Warjack

HARROWER HELLDIVER
Heavy Warjack Light Warjack

LEVIATHAN
Heavy Warjack

NIGHTWRETCH
Light Warjack

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 RIPJAW
Light Warjack

REAPER
Heavy Warjack

SEETHER
Heavy Warjack
SCAVENGER
Light Warjack

SHRIKE
Light Warjack

SLAYER
Heavy Warjack
STALKER
Light Warjack
BARATHRUM
Heavy Warjack

DEATHJACK
Heavy Warjack

CANKERWORM
Light Warjack

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 EREBUS
Heavy Warjack

MALICE NIGHTMARE
Heavy Warjack Heavy Warjack

KRAKEN
Colossal Warjack

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 SEPULCHER
Colossal Warjack

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 BILE THRALLS
Unit

CARRION THRALLS
Unit

MECHANITHRALLS
Thrall Unit

NECROSURGEON &
STITCH THRALLS
BRUTE THRALL Thrall Unit
Mechanithrall
Weapon Attachment

SKARLOCK
COMMANDER
Command Attachment

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 SOULHUNTERS
Thrall Unit

THE WITHERSHADOW COMBINE IRON LICH

Iron Lich Unit OVERSEER
Solo

BLOAT THRALL
Solo

NECROTECH & SCRAP THRALL

Solos

MACHINE WRAITH
Solo

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 PISTOL WRAITH
Solo
SOUL TRAPPER
Thrall Solo
SKARLOCK THRALL
Solo

BLOAT THRALL
OVERSEER MOBIUS
Solo

AIAKOS, SCOURGE
WARWITCH SIREN OF THE MEREDIUS
Solo Solo

WRAITH ENGINE
Battle Engine

DARRAGH
WRATHE
Solo
(Mounted &
Dismounted)

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 PAINTING
YOUR ARMY
As a hobby miniatures game deeply rooted in lore and
character, WARMACHINE offers hundreds of distinctive and
highly detailed models designed for maximum modeling
and painting enjoyment. Each model is a canvas on which
to unleash your own creativity and imagination. You can
choose to try your hand at the tried-and-true P3 Studio
scheme, dive deeper into the Iron Kingdoms setting with an
alternate paint scheme drawn from the lore and background
of your Faction, or throw convention to the wind and create
a completely original look for your models. Whatever your
choice, few things are as rewarding as bringing your army to
life with your brush and some paints.
When painting an army, as in life, the fun truly lies in the
journey more than in the destination. And like every journey,
the road to a fully painted force begins with a crucial first
step—in this case, deciding how you want your army to look!
The following pages contain color guides and quick tips
designed to provide inspiration for your Cryx painting
adventure. We begin with a look at models painted in the
traditional studio scheme for the Cryxian army. This scheme
is shown throughout the model gallery on pages 136–145.
Whether or not you decide to emulate the studio scheme,
it is a great foundation to draw from with its green-greys,
ancient-worn golds, and contrasting glowing greens.
Next we present some alternative approaches to painting
your Cryx models. Designed for infiltration and sowing
terror, the armies of the Dragonfather are as diverse as they
are numerous. From the deep green of the Jade Mourn to
the weathered red and bronze of The Branding Iron blackship
to the ghostly pale whites and blues of Bane Lord Tartarus’
Host, Cryx offers the chance to explore a wide range of
sinister palettes. By combining ideas from the setting, the
studio scheme, and the real world, you can easily create a
unique look for your army that still feels right at home in the
Iron Kingdoms.
Finally, for those who really want to flex their creative
muscles, we present a radically different paint scheme drawn
straight from the imagination of the painter who created it,
as well as some great examples of Cryx models painted by
the WARMACHINE and HORDES community to inspire
your own unique creations. Choosing a more original or
whimsical approach can result in a truly eye-catching army,
but such schemes rely on careful planning and a willingness
to experiment with multiple combinations of colors until
everything has been dialed in just right to create a balanced
yet visually striking effect. When it comes to your army’s
special look, inspiration can spring from anywhere.
Regardless of which direction you decide to take in painting
your own Cryxian force, we hope this guide provides you
with the spark needed to set your imagination on fire as you
sit down with brush in hand to create an army as individual
as you!
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PAINT SCHEME
SLAYER

Green Glow
Armor
base: Menoth White Highlight
base: Cryx Bane Highlight
shade: Green Ink
shade: Cryx Bane Base
highlight: Yellow Ink
shade: Umbral Umber,
Thamar Black 1:1

Bone
Brass
base: ’Jack Bone
base: Blighted Gold
shade: Battlefield
shade: Umbral Umber
Brown
highlight: Brass Balls
highlight: Menoth
White Base

Steel
base: Pig Iron
shade: Cryx Bane Base
highlight: Cold Steel

Painter’s Inspiration
The Cryx paint scheme is mostly monochromatic and relies
on differences in value to achieve contrast. Large areas of
the models are painted in black and grey tones. The metallic
areas hold the place of midtones, while the flesh and bone
areas are the brightest parts of the models. These differences
in light and dark create points of interest. Right away the
eye is drawn to the flesh or bone face of the model, since it
is so much brighter than the rest. The glowing green accents
of runes and heartfire serve the same purpose.

A model completely void of color is quite boring visually,

so when painting a model with a neutral color scheme
it is important to add a bit of bright color to the shading
and highlights to keep things fun. The Cryx paint scheme
adds greens and purples to many of the mixes to prevent
models from becoming bland. These colors can then be
used on select models and units to add variety to the
army, as is the case with the Satyxis or black ogrun.

For more examples of Cryx models with studio paint

schemes, see the gallery on pages 136–145 or go to
privateerpress.com.

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PAINT SCHEME
BRUTE THRALL

Steel
Green Glow base: Pig Iron
base: Menoth White shade: Cryx Bane Base
Highlight highlight: Cold Steel
shade: Green Ink
highlight: Yellow Ink

Bone
base: ’Jack Bone
Flesh shade: Battlefield Brown
highlight: Menoth White
base: Thrall Flesh
Base
shade: Beaten Purple,
Coal Black 1:1
highlight: Thrall Flesh,
Menoth White Highlight 1:1
Wounds
Brass base: Skorne Red
shade: Umbral Umber
base: Blighted Gold
highlight: Khador Red Base
shade: Umbral Umber
highlight: Brass Balls

PAINTING TIPS
You can create a weathered surface by applying a base layer of
rust and then sealing it. Add two layers of hairspray followed
by a thin coat of your base color. Use a stiff bristled brush and
clean water to remove the base layer and reveal the rust color.
Further accentuate the effect by adding a thin line of Thamar
Black to the top edges of the chips, and a line of the highlight
color to the bottom edge.

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PAINT SCHEME
SLAYER

Green Glow
Armor
base: Menoth
base: Underbelly Blue
White Highlight
shade: Ironhull Grey
shade: Green Ink
highlight: Frostbite
highlight: Yellow Ink

Bone
Steel
base: ’Jack Bone
base: Pig Iron
shade: Cryx
shade: Bastion Grey
Bane Base
highlight: Cold Steel
shade: Battlefield
Brown

Gold Blue Metal

base: Brass Balls base: Thamar Black
shade: Thornwood Green shade: Underbelly Blue
highlight: Radiant Platinum highlight: Frostbite

Painter’s Inspiration
Lich Lord Scopulous, master of Cryx’s reserve army, supports
the incursions on the mainland with his sizable stockpile of
thralls, warjacks, and necrotite. Scopulous also commands
the Nightmare Empire’s garrisons and fortresses, ensuring
their readiness against direct counterattack. The Host of
Scopulous represents the Lich Lord’s personal bodyguard,
and they share the ghostly appearance of their nefarious
master. Eschewing the subdued grayish green of the greater
Cryxian army, the thralls and warjacks of Scopulous boast
pale blue armor accented by dark brass. This phantasmal
appearance is completed with a bright green glow that
emanates from the vents of machinery and the ephemeral
forms of its warriors.

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PAINT SCHEME
BRUTE THRALL

Black Armor
Steel
base: Thamar Black
shade: Underbelly Blue base: Pig Iron
highlight: Frostbite shade: Bastion Grey
highlight: Cold Steel

Green Glow
base: Menoth
White Highlight
shade: Green Ink
Bone
highlight: Yellow Ink base: ’Jack Bone
shade: Cryx
Flesh Bane Base
shade: Battlefield
base: Underbelly Blue
Brown
shade: Ironhull Grey
highlight: Frostbite

Gold Wounds
base: Brass Balls base: Carnal Pink
shade: Thornwood Green shade: Battledress Green
highlight: Radiant highlight: Ryn Flesh
Platinum

PAINTING TIPS
Add a touch of Cryx Bane Base to the shadow of your metals
to give your Cryx a sickly look. Combining Cryx Bane Base and
Brown Ink works well for the brass found on most Cryx models.

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 “STORMY WATERS”
PAINT SCHEME
SLAYER

Vent Glow
Armor
base: Murderous Magenta
base: Meredius Blue
shade: Beaten Purple
shade: Exile Blue
highlight: Morrow White
highlight: Arcane Blue

Rust
Brass
base: Bloodtracker
base: Molten Broze
Brown
shade: Molten Bronze,
Thamar Black 1:1
highlight: Brass Balls

Steel
base: Pig Iron
shade: Armor Wash
highlight: Cold Steel

Painter’s Inspiration
By William Shick

When coming up with a new look for my Cryx, my

imagination continually wandered to thoughts of the
Northwest Coast in winter. Dark and brooding skies and
the worn and chipped paint of vessels and structures
exposed to water and weather day in and day out.

For my primary color I decided to go with Meredius Blue,

which is more of a dark teal than a true blue. Arcane blue
provided the perfect highlight, allowing me to achieve a
pre-storm sea look. In addition, the blue complemented
the brown-orange primer layer I wanted to use for the
salt-weathering effect.

Salt-weathering is a tried-and-true scale model technique

that is both simple and effective at easily creating a realistic
weather-chipped look.

For my thralls’ flesh I knew I wanted to do something

different from the standard pale, necrotic skin tone
commonly seen on Cryx models. I really like the sinister

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PAINT SCHEME
BRUTE THRALL

Steel
base: Pig Iron
shade: Armor Wash
highlight: Cold Steel
Vent Glow
base: Murderous Magenta
shade: Beaten Purple
highlight: Morrow White Bone
base: Rucksack Tan
highlight: Menoth White
Flesh Highlight
base: Bastion Grey
shade: Thamar Black
highlight: Cryx Bane Highlight

Brass Wounds
base: Molten Broze base: Sanguine Highlight
shade: Molten Bronze, shade: Sanguine Base
Thamar Black 1:1 highlight: Murderous
highlight: Brass Balls Magenta

feel of the dead grey flesh and how it contrasts with the rest of
the elements on the model.

To continue with the nautical feel, I kept the metals subdued

with a dark brass for the trim and dark iron for the silver. For
the iconic Cryxian glow, I decided to try something different
and went for a pinkish magenta.

PAINTING TIPS
To paint the Cryx glow, start with a basecoat of Menoth White
Highlight. Add a drop of Green Ink to Necrotite Green to create
a wash and coat the entire area. Place a shade of Green Ink
in the deepest recesses. Lay on highlights with Menoth White
Highlight. Finally, to intensify the overall effect and add punch
to the glow, add a couple drops of Yellow Ink to the Necrotite
Green/Green Ink mix and glaze the entire area.

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 GORESHADE THE CURSED
by Bryce Jensen

SKARRE, QUEEN OF
THE BROKEN COAST
by Brant Benoit PIRATE QUEEN SKARRE
by Marcin Olszewski

SCRAP THRALL
by William "Oz"
Schoonover
BILE THRALL
BANE WARRIOR DEATHRIPPER by Jason Hobbs
by Tod McNeal by Jacky Perkins

DEATHJACK
by Lance Engle
BRUTE THRALL
by Jason Soles

IRON LICH
ASPHYXIOUS
by Stuart Spengler

SKARLOCK THRALL
INFLICTOR by Stuart Spengler
by Stuart Spengler

MALICE
by Stuart Spengler

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 HELLDIVER
by Brian Finken

LICH LORD
STALKER TERMINUS
by Brian Finken by Brian Finken

KRAKEN
by Dallas Kemp

PAINTING YOUR ARMY

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SOUL REAPER
(Lich Lord Asphyxious)

FEAST OF WORMS
(Lord Exhumator Scaverous)

BREATH OF CORRUPTION
(Iron Lich Asphyxious)

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