Beastfiends

Hostile Species
Full Name	Beastfiends
Alias	Half-Breeds Children of Chaos Gorfiends (Khornate Beastfiends) Long-Snouts (Slaaneshi Beastfiends)
Origin	Warhammer Fantasy
Homeworld	Malleus
Abilities	Various
Members	Ograx the Great Moraq Agrammon (presumably)
Goals	Assiting Archaon in ending the world Obtaining the Favour of the Ruinous Powers
Crimes	Various
Type of Hostile Species	Hostile Hybrids

“	With no 'men' in the southern wastes there were no true 'beastmen' such as Archaon had encountered everwhere else on his doomed travels. The creatures of the southern wastes were an eye-stinging fusion of beast and lesser-daemon, the infernal entities that plagued the benighted wilderness with their malevolence. They were beastfiends, led by the foetid best of their kind.	„
	~ The Beastfiends of the Southern Wastes

Beastfiends are a antagonist species unique to the Warhammer Fantasy setting. They are the "cousins" to the much more common and well-known Beastmen.

Information

Beastfiends are described as savage fusions of animal and daemon, though some are mixed with existing beastmen. They are similar to the damned brethren who hide in the forests of the Empire, being twisted creatures drawn to the most gifted and monstrous of the Dark God's champions, either in obeisance or challenge. Again similar to the Beastmen, some of them suffer the specific sponsorship of one Ruinous Power in particular; Mutated Mongrels and Beastfiend Daemon Princes rule their warherds with a tyrannical fist, maintaining power through murderous might or deadly cunning. Their following, too, may be claimed by one particular gods-- warped by Tzeentch, diseased by Nurgle, bloodlust -stricken by Khorne, or made lasivious and obsence by Slaanesh.

The life of a Beastfiend is hard and cruel, each tribe fighting for supremacy on the near-barren black-ice that is the Southern Realms. This is the only place where Beastfiends are naturally found and those not in position to demand their share subsist on scraps of old meat and snow. Red, fresh flesh is a rare and coveted delicacy as well as warmth in their permanently ice-locked home. Without access to metal, Beastfiends constructed their armaments and coverings from the bodies of their foes (and slaughtered friends) and bones of the land.

The Beastfiends of the Southern Wastes were not familiar with any of the languages spoken by men. Instead, they only knew Dark Tongue and it's derivitive: Beast Tongue. Despite the simple savagery of the language, it was still subject to regional variances that changed as one scoured the contiennt. This made translation, even for one who knew the tongue, trying.

Geographical Locations

• Haemorrhagia is a region of earthquakes and land-ruptures, where the ground bleeds pitch and births daemons such as Chaos Furies. It is occupied by Gorfiends, the Beastfiends of Khorne, and dominated by the Skullfest Tribe. The Skullfest tribe is ruled by Ograx the Great, a Beastfiend Champion of Khorne.

Social Structures

Beastfiends form themselves into tribes and warherds in much the same way the typical Beasts of Chaos. They are ruled over be Beastlords, Chieftains, Tyrant-Gors, and even specific champions of the Ruinous Powers. Daemon Princes can be found among them, leading them. They also have shamans and sages, who read signs and divine futures in splatters of blood upon the snow, in much the same way bray-shamans act as intermediaries between the Gods and their chaotic children.

Notable Groups

• The Skullfest Tribe, Gorfiends dedicated to Khorne. It's numbers are made up of Bullfiends and it is led by Ograx, son of the Bloodthirster Z'rughl Ka'kadron'ath.
• Agrammon's Beastfiends, like their Lord, are mutated in kind to Slaanesh's whims. They are described as taper-snouted creatures with entwining horns and long, sinuous tongues. Their eyes are blank-white and their fingers are pincers. They worked for Agrammon, among their true-daemon kin the daemonettes, as trappers of creature-hunters.

Notable Individuals

• Ograx the Great: Ograx was a Beastfiend of note, being a half-daemon spawn sired by a Bloodthirster. He was a champion of Khorne, blessed repeatedly by the Blood God, and was the strongest of Archaon's followers.
• Moraq Half-Horn: Moraq was one of Archaon's many Beastfiend reporters. He was a Chieftain, one with sharpened hooves and a scrawny Rhinoxen steed to carry him about. In the manner of a Plaguebearer, he had a single curving horn erupting from his head to curve beneath his jaw. He was eventually decapitated by Ograx the Great, his head used as a declaration of peace between the Everchosen and Khornate Beastfiend.