"Hear the summons of Hashut! The Dark Father calls you to slaughter, Blood and fire exhorts you to war! Hear the summons of Hashut! Stretch your limbs of blood-oiled steel, The Dawi-Zharr march forth once more! Answering the summons of Hashut!"
- —From the K'daai rituals of awakening.[2a]

A K'daai Fireborn as depicted in Total War: Warhammer III.
The K'daai, also called K'daai Fireborn and known in the dark tongue of the Chaos Dwarfs as the K'daai Zharr, which means "Scion of Fire" or the "Fireborn," are mighty, Daemonic, fire-elemental constructs which are created by and serve the Daemonsmiths of the Chaos Dwarf empire in the Dark Lands.[4a]
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Role
"The "Scions of Fire" are mighty Daemonic fire-elementals trapped by sorcery and science within the Chaos Dwarfs' hulking, armoured creations."
- —Description of K'daai Fireborn in Total War: Warhammer III.

A K'daai Fireborn, a Chaos Dwarf construct created from the merging of Daemonic energy, molten metal and fire.
Chaos Dwarfs are arrogant, malign and paranoid beings who will bend their knee to none but their Father in Darkness, the minor Chaos God Hashut. The desires of Chaos Dwarf Sorcerers and Daemonsmiths are for power and domination, and for weapons and soldiers that will make them invincible -- and it is from this desire that the K'daai Zharr, the "Scions of Fire," were born.[1a][4a]
Rather than summon uncontrollable Daemons as a Human Chaos Sorcerer might or parley bargains with the Greater Daemons of Chaos, priests of Hashut have long sought to enslave the Daemon they summon by binding it into weapons and armour, war machines and constructs, thus harnessing and controlling them to the sorcerer's will and giving them form.[1a][4a]
With the K'daai they have sought to do something more, to create a race of beings, half-Daemon essence and half-raging fire, drawn from the magma of the deep earth and birthed in the boiling blood of Hashut's burning sacrifices, given form and contained within an armoured framework of articulated iron and rune-stamped bronze.[1a][4a]
The high priests of Hashut have succeeded almost too well in the K'daai, for they are almost mindless, elemental forces of destruction, and need to be laid to rest as cold and silent metal until they are required in battle, where they burn bright and terrible, but briefly. Only the greatest of the sorcerer-prophets of Hashut is able to forge these monsters of metal and flame, and the process is both costly and arduous in the extreme.
This difficulty in their creation limits the K'daai's number, making them almost the stuff of legend. But with the dark imagination and the limits of the deadly craftmanship of the Chaos Dwarfs the only end to the terrible forms a K'daai can be fashioned and shaped into, there have been those of Hashut's priesthood who have met their cursed doom early, as the power required to make their glorious vision real has slipped from their grasp.[1a]
Miniatures
Trivia
"K'daai" is likely a reference to a Kudaai, a fire spirit in Indigenous Siberian Yakut mythology that was responsible for teaching humans how to work iron.
Sources
- 1 Tamurkhan: The Throne of Chaos (8th Edition)
- 1a: pg. 184
- 2: Monstrous Arcanum (Background Book)
- 2a: pg. 32
- 3: Total War Blog - Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs: Introducing Drazhoath the Ashen
- 4: Total War: Warhammer III (PC Game)
- 4a: K'daai Fireborn Unit Description