Banner of Clan Skurvy
Clan Skurvy is a Skaven Warlord Clan best known among their fellow ratmen as mangy cutthroats. Many of this clan bear the scars of their trade, including lost eyes and limbs. Clan Skurvy controls the largest of all the Skaven Clanfleets, having gnawed out the cavern-harbour known as Spineport. From here the clan's ramshackle fleet reaps a fortune (and no small amount of dread repute) from piracy, much of which is spent on buying and press-ganging replacement slaves to replenish the fleet's short-lived crew.[1a]
Protected by a maze of fog-enshrouded rocks, false lights and foul sorceries lead trading ships to smash themselves against the Spineport's protective barriers. The inflow of salvaged wealth funds the clan's ever-growing navies. The clan's fleet ships are made of rotting, worm-ridden wood clad in iron and powered by banks of rowing slaves. The clan has begun negotiations with Clan Skryre to contract their Warlock Engineers to produce warpsteam engines that will surely increase the range of Clan Skurvy piracy along the coasts.[3a]
Clan Skurvy's spoils are also supplemented by salvaging rocks off the coast of the Isle of Sirens, bounty that is hauled back to the clan's secret lair beneath the Tilean city of Tobaro. On board a clanship, every Skaven is a suspect of mutiny, which is just as well as they are all planning to do it sooner or later. No clawcaptain keeps command for long unless he is utterly ruthless, and those that lapse for even a moment tend to "fall" overboard or "accidentally" walk the plank. Because mutiny is so rampant, the clawpacks that serve in Clan Skurvy tend to adopt the icons of their ship rather than those of any particular clawcaptain. Variations of the rat-skull and crossed-bones are common motifs.[1a]
Ships of Clan Skurvy such as The Clanship Bubonic, Black Pox and The Teeth of Spineport have been plaguing the seas for many decades.[1b]
Since the end of their second major civil war, the Skaven have expanded along the Tilean and Estalian coasts. Several lairs have been tunnelled out along the rocky-cliff lines. Clan Skurvy, based below the Tilean city of Tobaro, controls the largest of these, but Clan Rikket and Clan Skuttle maintain rival fleets.[3a]
Forces of Clan Skurvy[]
- Storm-vermarines - Storm-vermarines are halberd-wielding naval variants of the Skaven's black-furred elite Stormvermin that serve as boarding shock troops for Skurvy's ships. [2]
- Crew-rats - Crew-rats are naval variants of the extremely common Clanrat troops that dominate the majority of the Skaven armies.[2]
Notable Members[]
- Skretch Half-Dead — Once the foremost clawcaptain of the Skaven fleet, Skretch is now a servant of the Vampire pirate Count Noctilus and captain of the Skabrus.
- Vrisk Ironscratch — Ironscratch is the Fleetmaster of the Skaven Clanfleet, the ruler of Clan Skurvy, and a member of the Council of Thirteen.[2]
Sources[]
- 1: Warhammer Fantasy Battle - Army Essentials - Uniforms and Heraldry of the Skaven (Background Book)
- 2: All Tunnels Lead To Skavenblight (Short Story) by Andy Hall and Chris Gambold
- 3: Warhammer Armies: Skaven (7th Edition)
- 3a: pg 15
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