Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20170618201756

Flagellants are the one of if not the most feared, terrifying, and monstrous weapons the Empire has ever created and fielded in battle. They are living weapons made for one sole purpose, to kill. And killing they do best. Pumped with all sorts of drugs and stimulants they have no perception of pain, fear, or remorse they are mindless killing machines only stopped by mortal wounds or by the very chemicals put inside their body eventually killing them.

Flagellation is consider a Capital punishment given to the worst individuals, but one's who's crimes are not severe enough to warrant immediate execution. They are taken to a lab of the Cultus Umbra and given cybernetic enhancements, weapons, and a device known as a 'Sleeping Shroud', the Sleeping Shroud is device that keeps the Flagellants clam and sedated before missions and during storage. The Device keeps them in a almost trance with the help of drugs and religious chants.

Flagellants are used in combat as either lone assassins or in packs. For the lone assassin part they would be much like Xenomorphs, relentless hunters that creep and crawl around stalking their target. Now in battle packs they are a pack of relentless killing machine that kill everything in sight (save things marked by their HUD as friends/allies) 