The Hex
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The Hex are a Dark Eldar Haemonculi Coven of Commorragh.[1]
Overview
This coven is known for its flair for the dramatic. They consider themselves the most artistically gifted of the Dark City's many Covens, and will participate in raids upon Realspace only if the locale or victims involved serve as a suitable muse. Much of their "art" is presented on a large and shocking scale, such as the sliced and stitched remains of hundreds of victims. Such a creative process requires a substantial workforce, thus they tend to maintain large retinues of Wracks.[2] The Hex is known to specialize in the fabrication of curses, which while seemingly magical to the lesser races are instead based on arcane technologies. They are known to slaughter whole species to obtain the ingredients to craft such technomantic maladies. One of their most favored afflictions is the Plague of Glass, but they have also developed the Ossefactor and Orbs of Despair. Many of its practitioners are of the Nadirist discipline, seeking to attain godhood by bleeding darkness into the fabric of reality to transcend the mortal plane.[7]
In battle, they compete fiercely to secure the greatest number and variety of living victims, and the grand unveiling of their work is seen just as important as the pieces themselves. As such, they will always ensure their victims have enough time to call for help before finishing them off. Once reinforcements arrive, the Hex will allow them to fully appreciate each macabre exhibit, drinking in the terror and revulsion from hiding places. Only when insanity and hysteria have taken hold do the Hex strike, destroying their audiences transports and hunting them down in the final "finale" of their masterpiece.[2] Their raiding territory is located within the edge of Ultima Segmentum.[6]
Notable Actions
- In 926.M36, the Coven was able to contain and harness the Glass Plague of Jalaxlar, utilizing the terrifying disease in realspace raids.[3]
- The Coven has expressed interest in the Cursed Founding pf the Adeptus Astartes, raiding the Donorian System with Duke Sliscus to kidnap dozens of Black Dragons. Over the next three years the Space Marines were experimented upon endlessly, eventually isolating the osseovirus attached to their Gene-Seed that saw them sport blade-like bone growths. They then refined the macro-sterodial effects of the mutagen to create the Ossefactor.[7]
- Sometime after the creation of the Great Rift The Hex Haemonculus Khaeghris Xhakt launched an unsuccessful raid on Fenris.[4]
Notable Haemonculi
- Jhynkar — former member, fled from Commorragh and became an ally of Traevelliath Sliscus.[5]
- Khaeghris Xhakt - former Haemonculus Ancient, killed by Ulrik the Slayer. His head is in the Trophy Hall of The Fang.[4]
Forces
See also
Sources
- 1: Codex: Dark Eldar (5th Edition), pg. 86
- 2: Codex: Dark Eldar (7th Edition) — Covens of the Haemonculi
- 3: Haemonculus Covens - A Codex: Dark Eldar Supplement — The Chronicle of Endless Woe
- 4: Codex: Space Wolves (8th Edition) Annals of the Space Wolves, pg. 21
- 5: Lukas the Trickster (Novel), Chapter Three
- 6: Warhammer 40,000.com Map (last accessed 8/10/2020)
- 7: Codex: Drukhari (8th Edition), pg. 39
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