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Art: “Another Side of Pain” by Vesta (Skitoya) Menyachikhina, used with the artist's permission. source

Aeldari & Drukhari · Unit

Haemonculi

Twisted, ancient flesh-sculptors of the Drukhari Covens who drift across the battlefield on spinal suspensors to harvest living specimens and unleash alchemical horrors.

Drukhari

Faction
Drukhari
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Illustrated by Vesta (Skitoya) Menyachikhina (“Another Side of Pain”, used with permission)

Lore & origins

Even the most sadistic Kabalite Archon treats the Haemonculi of the Under-Core with polite dread. Masters of flesh-craft, toxin-alchemy, and cellular regeneration, the Haemonculi hold the keys to immortality in Commorragh: only within their amniotic racks can a slain Drukhari be regrown from a withered scrap of flesh. Having modified their own bodies over millennia into multi-limbed, spine-extended monstrosities, Haemonculi view war in realspace as a gallery exhibition of living sculpture.

Appearance & wargear

Hovering inches above the ground on anti-grav suspensors wired into an elongated, centipede-like spine, a Haemonculus wears aprons of stitched skin and bristles with surgical syringes, Scissorhands, Electrocorrosive Whips, and Liquifier Guns.

Weapons & Vehicles

Standard Armament & Combat LoadoutA Haemonculus carries Haemonculus Tools, Scissorhands, Electrocorrosive Whips, and acid-spraying Liquifier Guns.
Agoniser & HuskbladeMelee Weapon

The nerve-shredding neural whips and moisture-vaporising Huskblades of Drukhari Archons and Succubi, turning close combat into an arena…

Splinter Rifle & Splinter CannonRanged Weapon

The cruel crystal-toxin firearms of the Drukhari Kabals, firing storms of venomous shards designed to kill targets in maximum, soul-nou…

WracksElites · Support

Masked, surgically remade servants of the Haemonculus Covens, Drukhari who chose to become living instruments of torture.

Talos Pain EnginesHeavy Support · Support

Semi-sentient Drukhari flesh-and-metal torture constructs created by the Haemonculus Covens that hover across the battlefield harvestin…

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Battlefield role & tactics

Drifting behind phalanxes of Wracks and Talos Pain Engines, a Haemonculus invigorates Coven constructs with agonising elixirs while dissolving enemy armour with Liquifier Guns.

Notable battles & users

  • 796.M41 — Master Haemonculus Urien Rakarth faked his own death three times during the Battle of the Blood Nebula to study Imperial Space Marines' pain responses.

Further reading

Lexicanum · Warhammer 40k Wiki