"Understood! Just don't expect it to be easy. And if you do kill me, tell Duke Fabriano this - he hasn't heard the last of Mordini. Someday, somehow, accounts will be settled for this day!"
Ennio Mordini leading his legion.
Ennio Mordini (2369 IC to 2411 IC and then 2416 IC to Present) was one of the most renowned mercenary commanders of Tilea’s Era of Enlightenment. He claimed he was blessed by both Myrmidia and Morr, and it was said that to serve under his command was to court victory and cheat death. Known he's the revenant captain of the Nightmare Legion and ruler of Lumbrusco in the Principality of Pavona.[1][2a][2b]
History[]
Ennio worked for Duke Fabriano of Lumbrusco, a princedom by the the Apuccini Mountains. Behind Ennio’s back the Duke and his rival, the Duke of Organza, came to an agreement. Fabriano ordered Ennio to march on Organzatogether with his lieutenant Renzo Avanti and his army, sending the mercenaries to their death in a a well-prepared ambush conduct by another general named Sardo.[1]
Five years later, an army of mail-clad skeletons marched out of the mountains under the tattered banner of Mordini. They cut the armies of Lumbrusco to ribbons and razed the city to the ground. It is said that Mordini has now re-fortified the city and established a court of the dead there.[1][2b]
It took the traitorous Duke Fabriano seven days and seven nights to die, and Mordini's sword - Skabscrath - is said to scream and howl to this day in memory of the cruel deaths of the Duke and his family, in horror in every living being. The undead Legion of Mordini then turned against Organza and the other city-states of Tilea. It is said that Mordini got with his undead the city of Lumbrusco, and now hold court there, but no one has yet come close enough to confirm or deny this. At least that is what a Tilean legend says about the Nightmare Legion.[1][2b]
Wargears[]
Skabscrath in Warhammer: Dark Omen.[5]
- Skabscrath - The legendary blade of the Undead mercenary Ennio Mordini, Skabscrath flickers with pale flame. A blade so potent it cannot be sheathed without first taking a life, Skabscrath is possessed of an evil sentience that drives the wielder to ever darker acts. Some claim the blade is more steeped in evil than any Vampire, for it will betray its wielder if its bloodlust is not sated. When unsheathed, Skabscrath continually emits the terrible screams of all those it has slain, amplified to such a degree that it can cause those who hear them to die of fright.[3a][4a]
Sources[]
- 1: The Nightmare Legion box (3rd Edition).
- 2: Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4th Edition: Up in Arms (RPG)
- 3: Warhammer Armies: Vampire Counts (7th Edition)
- 3a: pg. 84.
- 4: Warhammer Armies: Vampire Counts (8th Edition)
- 4a: pg. 62.
- 5: Warhammer: Dark Omen (Videogame).