"I know your master is impatient for the wax bust of his mistress, but he must understand that I will sculpt in no material - none - except for the unique wax that I alone import from Ind. Until the next shipment arrives, we can do nothing."
- —Giovanni to his master Wilbert Ree[1b]
Giovanni is a brilliant hunchbacked Tilean artist in his own right,[1c] as mad as his master Wilbert Ree, and a devotee of Slaanesh - the cult is a good customer of Ree's, and lured Giovanni into its clutches. Some of the corpses he uses have been obtained through the Body Trade, others he abducts from the streets himself; mostly beggars and foreigners of Marienburg. Covering them in wax and building them into the tableaux of Ree's Wax Museum studio.[1a]
Giovanni is familiar to the few ghouls of Marienburg, who act as intermediaries with the most depraved of bawds and cut-throats who supply his victims. Hieronymous Deecksburg knows Giovanni and fears him, for he has seen the touch of Chaos through his own sketches and knows it has consumed him.[1a]