Archon Lord Zucrous Shadowhelm, The Reaper of Souls, Supreme Dark Lord of the Kabal of the Severed Soul
Pts/model WS BS S T W I A Ld Sv
Zucrous 230 9 6 3 3 3 8 4 10 4+
A Dark Eldar army may take Zucrous as a HQ choice. An Eldar, or Harlequin, army may take him either as an elite or HQ choice but only if there is one other HQ choice. He must be used exactly as described below, may not be given any equipment. In addition, he can only be used if both players have agreed to the use of special characters.
Weapons: Shadow field, Runar, Illusion field, mask of deception and webway portal.
Runar: This weapon is a powerful artifact, from where none but those guarding the black library know. it obviously can control Zucrous' inbridled psychic power making it a fearsome weapon of destruction. The crystal at the pummel of the sword holds the soulls of all Zucrous' most powerful victims even that of the previous Archon of the kabal of the severed soul. in game terms Runar always wounds on a 2+, no armor saves allowed (Invulnerable saves taken normally). St 9 against vehicles.
Illusion Field: Just a different name for the Harlequin's Holo suit.
Mask of deception: This mask to his oponents puts zucrous into a blur, making it terribly hard to get a direct hit off on him. In game terms unless a six is rolled on eash hit, that hit cannot instant kill him due to massive damage (force weapons etc may still instant kill him however).
Special rules:
Independent Character: Unless accompanied by a command squad, Zucrous is an independent character and follows the independent character special rules in the Warhammer 40,000 rulebook.
Command Squad: May be accompanied by an Incubi retinue and be mounted on a raider or be accompanied by a squad of mandrakes.
Hidden Deployment: Same as mandrake rule but may not use it if with an Incubi retinue.
Special Power: When in combat and using Runar may concentrate all attacks on a single model if he does Runar counts as a force weapon as well as any other special abilities it has.
Almost none know the backround surrounding the dark lord of the Kabal of the Severed Soul. Even less know how he became the Archon of the kabal. What is known is that he is rithless, merciless, and sadistic. Zucrous before entering the kabal was taken by the Harlequins and learned much of other eldar society from the craftworlds to the worlds of the exodites, some say he has even visited the black library. What is certain is that the harlequins have plans to for him. Zucrous has been an anomoly within DE society. For in fact he is a Dark Eldar with latent psychic powers. This of course has been a huge problem for Zucrous, for if the torturors of the dark city had found out when he was young, he would have been nothing more than a play toy. This is probably the reason he has become such a domant force within Commorragh, the fact that the more powerful he becomes the more unlikely he is to fall into the hands of the Haemonculus. Zucrous' tactics involve typical DE strategy, but with more stealth and suprise than speed, many of his warriors have been seen weilding a strange device that blends them into the shadows, allowing them more suprise than even other DE factions. But the mopst suprising thing about Zucrous and his kabal is the fact that on multiple occasions they have been seen fighting alongside their harlequin brothers. They have also been seen fighting alongside a strange craftworld known as craftworld ynwe. Some say that Zucrous is actually one of the light kin, but any who have known him say otherwise his distrust of even his closest advisors, and his distast for even his own psychic powers makes this fact undebatable to most. What the Harlequin's intentions are for him is inclear, but whatever it is it is certain that Zucrous will try to fullfill it with ruthless efficiancy.
