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[[Image:SkulltakerArt8th.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Skulltaker{{Fn|4}}]]'''Skulltaker''' or '''U'Zuhl''' is a [[Bloodletter]] Champion of [[Khorne]].{{Fn|1}} 

Skulltaker often fights in battles at the head of his own army - the [[Cohort of Blood]], which includes the best Bloodletters, personally chosen by him from among the numerous legions of daemons.{{Fn|4}} In the middle of the greatest slaughter, Skulltaker always seeks out the mightiest of the enemy's warriors, hacking through the fray with [[Slayer Sword|his wickedly serrated blade]] so that he may confront his chosen opponent. Those that flee are cut down immediately, while those that stand and fight suffer a slower and much more painful death. Skulltaker is a duelist duellist beyond compare, always dismembering and despoiling, but never slaying. Only when his foe is limbless upon the ground does Skulltaker allow him final release. He grasps their head in his hand, and offering the eight Words of Sacrifice, wreathes his victim's head in magical fire, burning away at their flesh until only bare skull remained. He then tears the skull free, holds it aloft for all to see, and places his prize in the great sack he carries on his back, along with all the trophies taken in that battle.{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|4}}[[Image:Skulltaker.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Skulltaker{{Fn|1}}]]

* Felling a quarter of the [[Grey Knights]] [[Grey Knights Brother-Captain|Brother-Captain]]s during the [[First War for Armageddon]]{{Fn|1}}

'''Khul'tyran''' is the legendary [[Juggernaut]] mount of Skulltaker. Though Skulltaker prefers to fight alone, occasionally he will mount the beast. At the time the creature was claimed by Skulltaker from Khorne’s infernal foundries, Khul’tyran was said to have been the toughest in the Juggernaut stockade. The Daemon-beast had killed more of his kin than any other before or since. He prowled the perimeter of the pens, regularly making bids for freedom – he once shattered the compound’s wall and would have escaped were it not for the dozen Heralds of Khorne who held him back. Skulltaker selected Khul’tyran from the pack when the Champion witnessed the beast goring three Heralds at once. It was a sure sign, by Skulltaker’s reckoning, that they could take forth the Blood God’s wrath in an appropriate manner. And so they did. The pair has stormed out of the Warp to harvest a bounty of skulls for Khorne. They have dueled duelled others on countless planets in the mortal realm, never yet losing a challenge. While Skulltaker decapitates his foes with the [[Slayer Sword]], Khul’tyran tears into metal armour as if it were soft flesh, and flesh as if it were dust. So pleased is Khorne with their murderous work, that while in the Immaterium, Khul’tyran is the only Juggernaut permitted to prowl the smoke-choked passageways of the Blood God’s Brass Citadel, as its reward for unbridled destruction.{{Fn|3}}

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Skulltaker8th.jpg|Skulltaker Miniature ([[8th Edition]])

*{{Endn|2}}: [https://web.archive.org/web/20231107094107/https://www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/Skulltaker-2019 Warhammer - Skulltaker] ''(saved archive page, dated 07 Nov 2023, last accessed 30 Mar 2025, archived from [original link: https://www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/Skulltaker-2019the original] 07 November 2023, last accessed 30 March 2025)''

*{{Endn|4}}: [[Codex: Chaos Daemons (8th Edition)]], pg. 37 — ''Skulltaker - The Champion of Khorne''