The Coven of Twelve
The Coven of Twelve are a Dark Eldar Haemonculi Coven of Commorragh.[1]
Overview
The Coven of Twelve is a conclave of several Haemonculi, each of whom considers himself the foremost practitioner of the dark arts. Membership of the Coven is restricted to just eleven individuals at any time – the twelfth spot is left open for Urien Rakarth, should he ever deign to accept the Coven’s invitation. Since Haemonculi have a habit of overcoming death, the only way that a new aspirant can ascend to join the Twelve is to dispose of a current incumbent in a manner so thorough that even a master Haemonculus cannot undo it. Shegmeth Kro was pushed into a mirror dimension the size of a coffin too small for his frame. Khaebrys Xulfur was posed an impossible riddle that, with each wrong answer, turned more of his body into bone until finally he was nothing more than an osseous statue. Zakrodevia was rendered into a sentient soup using acids from captured Tyranids and then imbibed by his peers at a banquet.[2]
A warped arms race consumes the Coven of Twelve. Their quest to stay one step ahead of each other ensures these Haemonculi bear the deadliest devices their arcane science can yield. These tools of atrocity feature strongly in the arsenals of the Coven during their realspace raids – flesh gauntlets, electrocorrosive whips, null rods, mindphase gauntlets and even stranger weapons abound. Many of the Coven’s members are Scarlet Epicureans, their tastes for inventive fatalities so all-consuming they seek to experience them in person. Many of the Wracks in the service of the Twelve are flayed of their skin, their nerves left raw so they can better appreciate the full spectrum of sensation.[2]
The Coven's lair is a region of Commorragh known as The Pendulum. It contains a Webway Gate which is connected to a Crone World in the Eye of Terror, which has led more reckless Haemonculi of the Coven to dare to launch raids to capture Daemons for experimention. Some of the Haemonculi that have raided this world have since had their souls claimed by Khorne and are stuck in an endless cycle of butchery, rebirth, and death at the hands of his Daemons. The famed Coven of Twelve Haemonculi Mydilian used this method to rid himself of rivals.[5]
Their raiding territory is in the Ghoul Stars[3]
Notable Members
Relics
Forces
See also
Sources
- 1: Codex: Dark Eldar (5th Edition), pg. 86
- 2: Haemonculus Covens - A Codex: Dark Eldar Supplement — Covens of Commorragh
- 3: Warhammer 40,000.com Map (last accessed 8/10/2020)
- 4: Codex: Drukhari (9th Edition), pg. 65
- 5: Codex: Drukhari (8th Edition), pg. 37
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