Throt the Unclean, is a villainous anthropomorphic mutant rat from ''Warhammer Fantasy Battles''. He's a major character of the Skaven faction and the leader of Clan Moulder. He appears as a legendary lord in Total War Warhammer with the DLC ''The Twisted and the Twilight''. He is often assisted by Ghoritch, a unique cyborg rat ogre with the brain of a chaos warlord.
History[]
Throt the Unclean is one of the most twisted and ingenious mutators of Clan Moulder and has exploited that success to position himself as one of the nine Lords of Hell Pit, where the monsters of Clan Moulder are created. The effects of a lifetime of being exposed to Warpstone he used in his experiments can be seen, as bone spines protrude out of Throt's back and a third arm sprouts out of his bloated, but powerful belly. His left eye, torn from its socket in a struggle with a rival, has been replaced with a shard of warpstone crudely hammered into place, feeding its baleful influence directly into Throt's brain.
Over several self-developmental experiments, Throt has rapidly sped up his metabolism and now grows ravenously hungry after exertion. He requires constant nourishment and gluttonously crams tremendous amounts of food into his eternally unsatisfied gut. It is the Black Hunger, only worse. Eating more than four times his own body weight daily, Throt maintains such a pace to avoid being ravaged by his own warp-enhanced constitution. Surly at the best of times, when deprived of food (meaning the instant he stops chewing) Throt becomes mindlessly ferocious.
Throt's rise to power has been marked by an ability to create and lead to battle any number of bloodthirsty creatures, along with a knack for capturing new unfortunate beasts on which to experiment. Whether it is obtaining Blindwyrms, discovering the applications for Trollspleen, or cultivating the best "growing juices" to increase the size of Rat Ogres, few can match the deeds of Throt. Throt is active in advancing Clan Moulder's status and it is not unusual to find Throt, accompanied by packs of war-beasts, joining many Skaven battles. When Throt personally joins the fight he wields Creature-Killer, a modified things-catcher of his own design that can grab and throttle beasts the size of even a Rat Ogre. Additionally, Throt carries the Whip of Domination, a special whip made from Minotaur-hide and refined in Troll digestive juices. Even the vicious and mutated things that scuttle throughout the warrens of Hell Pit fear its stinging pain.
Maddening hunger caused by the Warpstone mutations ceaselessly torments Throt and he carries pouches stuffed with all manner of vile creatures he uses as snacks. His left eye, torn from its socket in a struggle against a rival Packmaster, has been replaced with a shard of warpstone crudely hammered into place, feeding its twisting power directly into his messed up brain. Throt is one of the oldest living Skaven within Clan Moulder, second only to the Clan's mysterious Lord of Decay. His lifespan has been extended far beyond its natural course by the manipulating effects of warpstone. Much of Clan Moulder is connected through the bloodline of Throt, for he has spawned literally hundreds of offspring, and they in turn have birthed countless others. The ranks of Clan Moulder include so many generations of Throt's offspring that he has become something of a patriarch amongst the wealthy clan.
Of course, as it is typical for SKaven, this bloodline conveys no hint of loyalty from his underlings, and he has slain countless numbers of his own children for plotting against him or for posing a threat to his position. His power within the clan has often been undermined by his wary superiors sabotaging his experiments and scheming against him. Utterly consumed with his disturbing research, Throt has long since lost whatever hint of sanity he once had. His waking hours are filled with his twisted studies, and the depths of his laboratory echo with the cacophony of tortured cries from the Frankenstein-like monstrosities dwelling there, the horrid results of his unnatural experiments. Cross-breeding all manner of creatures and utilising the mutating effects of warpstone, Throt is ever seeking to create more destructive creatures to set on his enemies and trade with other clans. In his sleep, his corrupted mind is filled with demented dreams, his mind plunging ever deeper within his insane delirium.
