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A '''Devourer''' is a [[Tyranid]] [[Biobio-weapon]], typically carried by [[Tyranid Warrior]] breeds and their variants (including [[Tyranid Shrike|Shrikes]] and [[Tyranid Prime]]s).{{Fn|1a}}.

The devourer is a conical lump of partly rotted flesh, infested by writhing '''Fleshflesh-worms''', parasites [[Ripper]]-like larvae with black, shiny heads. The cone is dotted with holes which serve both as breathing tubes and firing barrels. When the weapon is triggered, a bio-electric jolt hurls signals the brood to attack, hurling a shower of these the creatures at the enemy. When they strike an enemy, where they immediately start burrowing into the flesh, eating their way through the victim's nervous system towards the brain. The agony caused by this process is enough to drive the victim insane, though death is usually quick.{{Fn|1b}}{{Fn|2}}{{Fn|3}}{{Fn|7}}

Devourers wielded by When the largest Tyranid organisms worms are loaded with hives launched at the target, in a swarm of '''Brainleech worms'''hundreds at a time, a more aggressive they either shatter against the target and spread acid and voracious breed of wormpoison over it, or pierce the armour to burrow into the flesh as described above.{{Fn|1b4}}

When Devourers wielded by the largest Tyranid organisms are loaded with hives of '''brainleech worms are launched at the target''', in a swarm of hundreds at a time, they either shatter against the target and spread acid and poison over it, or pierce the armour to burrow into the flesh as described above{{Fn|4}}. The devourer is more of a hive than a distinct organism. The weapon is meshed with the host in such a way as to provide food aggressive and incubation for a host voracious breed of malformed Ripper larvae; it is these larvae which form the ammunition for the weapon. A large conical horn is perforated with multiple breathing tubes that also serve as avenues of egress in times of danger. Pheromone signals call the larvae to the breather tubes when the host senses the need to utilise the weapon. A bio-electric surge signals the brood to attack. When they encounter any object they immediately begin biting and burrowing in a frenzied attack while secreting highly corrosive bile. These creatures show a distinct taste for neurological tissues and move to the spinal column and brain with extreme haste, causing an agonizing but mercifully quick deathworm.{{Cite ThisFn|1b}}

devourer.jpg|A Devourer<br>Inset: Brainleech WormDevourer larvae{{Fn|7}}

*{{Endn|7}}: [[White Dwarf 257 (UK)]], ''[[Tyranid Bio-Weapons Thesis]]'', pg. 77