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Clan Skryre

The mad warlock-engineers of the Under-Empire, whose warpstone science arms Skavendom with lightning cannons, jezzails, and doomwheels — weapons generations ahead of the surface and half as reliable as they need to be.

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Clan Skryre is the mad genius of the Under-Empire, greatest of the warlock-clans and the source of nearly every Skaven weapon that spits lightning, belches smoke, or explodes when it is least convenient. Its Warlock-Engineers are sorcerer-scientists who fuse magic and machinery with reckless glee, refining raw warpstone into fuel and firepower in laboratories that regularly consume their creators. To Skryre belong the warp-lightning cannons, the jezzail teams, the poisoned-wind globadiers, the ratling guns and the rolling doomwheels — an arsenal ages ahead of anything the surface can field, and about half as dependable as it needs to be.

Power in Skryre is measured in warpstone and in the ingenuity to hoard it, and its engineers wage a constant covert war of sabotage, assassination, and stolen patents against one another. They sell their engines and their expertise to the warlord clans at ruinous prices, and they are careful never to explain quite how anything works. A Skryre device is a marvel and a menace in the same casing: it may shatter a regiment or the crew that fires it, and the engineer who built it will already be composing the excuse.

Skaven

Order of battle

The Clan Skryre field the units of the Skaven — a detachment from the roster:

Kindred formations

Other Skaven formations