Rikcruk Sliceblade.
Warlord Rikcruk Sliceblade, the number four warlord of Clan Rictus, was powerful, fast and insanely ambitious.
History[]
The black-furred leader did not envision himself ruling Crookback Mountain, the stronghold of his clan, but something far greater. He wanted to replace the Clan Rictus Lord of Decay, Kratch Doomclaw. He did not just desire to be the most dominant of all Warlord Clans; he wished to usurp the Greater Clans themselves. With his war-litter, his re-plated dwarf armour and his warpstone-forged sword, Rikcruk backed up his aspirations with swift violence.[1a]
During the End Times' Disaster at Karak Kadrin, Rikcruk led the second wave of Skaven to assault the Dwarf battle-lines. Despite the shelling from the Dwarfs' war-machines, they did not waver, but advanced. Warlord Sliceblade was a fierce leader, and it was his willpower that drove his warrior claws on - for they feared him more than any enemy. Clan Rictus had thrived in the deadly Dark Lands, growing in size and power until it rivalled Clan Mors as the foremost Warlord Clan. Rickruk knew that Ikit Claw and his Clan Skryre engineers had little faith in his ability to halt the Dwarfs. but the ambitious Warlord would not be denied his chance to seize greatness.[1]
Standing and issuing shrill orders from atop his war litter, Rickruk Sliceblade was well positioned. At the onset, he was at the force of the charge, but by the time the Skaven closed upon the Dwarfs he had subtly drifted back into the middle ranks. Carried by his thralls, the warlord seemed to float atop a sea of black-armoured Stormvermin. They were the pride of Clan Rictus, and they trod over their injured and fleeing kin in their frothing eagerness to join the battle. The impact of their collision with the Dwarfs halted the enemy advance, and the two armies pushed together to begin a grinding battle.[1]
Slowly, inexorably, the Dwarfs pushed back the multitudes that assailed them, though at the cost of many lives. Rickruk himself was slain by Ungrim Ironfist, his wooden palanquin smashed asunder and his body cleaved in twain by the wrathful King's axe.[1]