Nemesis Claw

Nemesis Claws are the Kill Team Units of the Night Lords Traitor Legion and their dedication to the arts of terror and ambush makes them shockingly effective special operatives.^[1]

Description

RUN AND HIDE YOU GUTLESS LITTLE WORMS. RUN AND HIDE! IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW FAR OR HOW FAST YOU FLEE, WE WILL STILL CATCH YOU, AND WHEN WE DO WE WILL PEEL THE SKIN FROM YOUR FLIMSY BODIES AND PLUCK YOUR EYES FROM YOUR SCREAMING HEADS. SO RUN IF YOU WANT TO, VERMIN. THE CHASE ONLY MAKES IT MORE FUN.^[3]

—Tzann the Ghoul, Skinthief

Composed of ten members each, those who serve in the Nemesis Claws are considered to be brutal, unhinged murderers even amongst their vicious and sadistic Night Lords brethren. The monstrous Kill Team Units favour close combat and commit the darkest atrocities for fun and eke out every drop of fear and pain from those who have the misfortune of facing them. Though they are valuable terror weapons, no Night Lord warlord trusts the Nemesis Claws and so they are instead unleashed upon a world and left to their own devices. But even then, the Nemesis Claws will seek out vital targets on which to slake their unholy appetites.^[1]

Types of Nemesis Claws

Visionaries: are the warlords of Nemesis Claw Kill Team Units, which possess a fragment of their Primarch Konrad Curze's powers of prescience. This grants them prophetic flashes of incoming attacks and sticky situations.^[2]
Fearmongers: use blades coated with the Terrorchem virulent toxin.^[2]
Ventrilokar: They carry a sorcerous totem, that was built from the ruined corpse of a murdered Space Marine that is now nothing more than a puppet. On command, the dead Space Marine's corrupted omophagea can mimic the voices of anyone whose flesh the Nemesis Claws have the corpse consume.^[1]
Screechers: use Vox Noctis Sonic Weapons.^[2]
Skinthieves: use their experience in the skinning pits to deftly swing large Nostraman Chainglaives with gory in-situ displays of skin-shredding expertise.^[2]
Heavy Gunners^[2]