The Bloodstoker is the cruel taskmaster of a Khorne warhorde, a champion of the Blades of Khorne whose grim purpose is to whip his fellow warriors into an ever-greater frenzy of bloodletting. Armed with a barbed bloodwhip and a torturer's array of goads, he stalks the battle-line lashing the flesh of his own comrades, for pain is a sacrament to Khorne and the sting of the whip drives the Bloodbound to charge faster, hit harder and abandon whatever caution still lingers in their skulls. There is no cowardice in accepting the lash — to a follower of the Blood God it is an honour, a reminder that hesitation is the only true sin. Where the Bloodstoker cracks his whip, warriors surge forward as if possessed, hurling themselves at the enemy with reckless abandon and thinking of nothing but the skulls to be taken. He is part priest, part torturer and part drill-master of murder, and the frenzy he stokes turns an already-savage horde into an unstoppable avalanche of rage.
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