The High Gladiatrix

The High Gladiatrix is the supreme champion of the murder-cult's blood-arenas, an undefeated Sister of Slaughter whose name has become a title, earned across countless duels fought for the glory of Khaine and the delight of her sisters. In the fighting pits where the cult tests and refines its killers, none have bested her, and her every victory has been an offering of such artistry that the priestesses count her a living scripture of the god's favour.

Armed with barbed whip and sacrificial blade, she fights with a mesmerising, merciless grace that turns slaughter into spectacle. Among the Daughters of Khaine she occupies a place apart, revered less as a commander than as an icon, the mortal proof of what a lifetime devoted wholly to the perfect kill can achieve. When she takes the field beyond the arena, she fights as she fights in the pits: seeking the worthiest foe, the most dangerous duel, the death that will best honour her god. To face the High Gladiatrix in single combat is regarded, even by her enemies, as a strange and terrible honour, for she has never yet met the warrior who could deny her the final cut.