THE SKAVEN RACE

The Skaven are a race of mutant humanoid rats living in a teeming society where overcrowdeness, the scarcity for food and the strict hierarchy based on the strong litteraly eating the weak make their existens very uncertain. The Skaven polical system is ripe with backstabbs, deals, bribes, threats, douple-crossing, betrayal and murder. The goal of the Skaven race is to prepare the world for the coming of the Horned Rat, meantime the stronger individuals do everything they can to increase their personal power while the weak die from starvation, cave-ins, inhumane working conditions or are murdered by a Skaven with even lower status. However the Skaven do not hold the lowest position, the slaves do and every lowly Skaven take every chance of inflicting pain and remove the dignity of these slaves. Slaves are humans, goblins and dwarfs captured in one of the numerous wars the Skaven unleash upon the Surface-World.

The Skaven power structure is divided into a clan structure where the strongest clans have the most influence in the Council of Thirteen, the political government of the Skaven. However the Council members work as much against each other as they do against the surface dwellers. The strongest clans are Clan Pestilen, the devotees of disease. Clan Skryre, warlock-engineers of weapons of death and destruction. Clan Eshin, black clad assassins that hold the entire Under-Empire in fear and are frequently used by the power seeking Skaven to rid themselves of any oppossition. Clan Moulder, famous for their specially breed creatures of war like the fearsome Rat Ogre, part Ogre part rat. There are also the numerous Warlord Clans that make up the bulk of the Skaven military forces but who are often allied with one of the ruling Clans. The Order of Grey Seers is not a clan but the religous spokesorgan for the Horned Rat and the administration of the Council of Thirteen, of course individual Grey Seers do have their own agenda."

The Skaven Clansystem By Garett lepper
The Skaven Culture By Garett lepper
The Skaven Economical system By Garett lepper
The Skaven appearence By Garett lepper
Skaven Politics By Garett lepper
The Skaven mind By Garett lepper
Skaven Warfare By Garett lepper