Jakhal

Chaos Portal
World Eaters

A Jakhal Dishonoured^[2]

Jakhals are World Eaters Cultists that accompany the Chaos Space Marines into battle.^[1]

Description

Unique to the World Eaters, Jakhals are ferocious fighters utterly devoted to their lords. They are fanatical fighters, resembling a pack of wild dogs and are strong in their devotion to Khorne. Jakhals most commonly reside on World Eaters warships, where they subsist on the remains of butchered slaves or rivals and engage in cannibalism to survive.^[4a]

Quick to fight each other, they nonetheless work together to bring down larger prey once unleashed. Each Jakhal wears a tank designed by Butcher-Surgeons upon their back. These vessels contain a variety of combat Stimms that drive the warriors into a slathering frenzy, enabling them to fight on through terrible wounds. The final ingredient pumped into them in this way is eight drops of a World Eaters blood. This potent warp-infected substance allows the Jakhals' fury to rise to apoplectic levels.^[3] In battle, Jakhals go into battle with a variety of weapons. These include ranged Autopistols and Blood Harpoons as well as a large amount of close combat weaponry such as Chainswords, Chainaxes, Great Chainaxes, Chainglaives, Mauler Chainblades, Manglers, Skullsmashers, Pickrippers.^[4b]

To join a Jakhal pack, a cultist must demonstrate their loyalty, bloodlust, and sheer fighting ability in a series of brutal initiation rites designed to weed out all but the strongest. Thus Jakhals are placed close to the top on the pecking order of the World Eaters mortal followers, but despite this status they are still ultimately viewed as expendable. Most World Eaters warbands use Jakhals to one extent or another, but some such as The Tide, Horkrax's Elect, and the Murder Bringers are noted to use them sometimes by the millions.^[3]

Massive Jakhals that tower over their brethren are known as Dishonoured and they serve as the Cultists' Champions. In battle, Jakhal hordes charge into the fray with Chainblades, Manglers, and spiked skullsmasher maces.^[2] There are also the less common Goremongers, which are an offshoot of the Jakhals.^[4a]

Images

A Group of Jakhals^[1]

See also

• Goremongers
• Chaos Cultist
• Poxwalker
• Tzaangor

Sources

• 1: Warhammer Community: Watch the Warhammer Preview Online 2022 Right Here (Posted on 18/11/2022) (Last accessed on 18/11/2022)
• 2: Warhammer Community: Warhammer Preview Online – Take Skulls and Spill Blood with Hordes of New World Eaters Units (Posted on 18/11/2022) (Last accessed on 19/11/2022)
• 3: Codex: World Eaters (9th Edition), pg. 21
• 4: Codex: World Eaters (10th Edition)
  • 4a: pg. 30
  • {{Endn|4b}: pg. 84