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Here’s a topical sample heretical sect for your players to seek out and destroy…

(Or how to make friends and immolate people)

In advance of September’s release of Disciples of the Dark Gods, I thought I’d have a crack at putting together some villains for your characters to immolate. These two are low level scum, none too subtle or dangerous, and are suitable for cornering in their feeble lairs and burning at the stake in one convenient session.

I love the old critters that appeared in Rogue Trader (and sometimes after in it in Chapter Approved), so I'm translating some of them to DH ruleset. The Catachan Devil is probably the most famous of all of them, and for years the most feared.

During my spare hours at college, I sat with a copy of DH and got down to work. The result was 3 types of threats for my PC's to go up against, and one named character 'apostle preacher alan merritt' (yes alan merritt, at the time i was brain storming Ideas for him at veterans night at Gamesworkshop, i was in a bar with my Players present; and i simply asked 'im stuck for a name for the apostle preacher, any ideas?' and i found several ideas very good, some serious, some jokingly. finally pete playing as the psyker piped up 'why not alan merritt and his laptop of fluffy doom?' I found the Idea of the preacher being alan merritt, highly amusing, as did my Players as well...it kinda stuck).

My attempt at a Warhammer 40k themed zombie. These are presented as the progeny of a supernatural Nurgle plague, though they may be obviously adapted as a GM wishes.

These zombies are intended to be the stuff of bad horror movies. Mindless killers who are almost unstoppable! You can easily outrun them, but for how long.

I have added some stuff, and corrected some grammar. English is not my native language so some errors I do not notice.

I have updated the profile after some comments.

Deep in the bowels of Hive Sibellus, a terrifying experiment has taken place this past decade. The Hive has taken an abomination to its bosom.  Cylah is known and loved around her adopted home of Heinous Sump.  Ten years ago, she wandered into the crumbling dome penniless and mind-wiped.  Many of that unfortunate dome's inhabitants are in a similar state, and she was accepted as one of them.  She is as much a hive dweller as any who grew up there. Now she is a leader of great reknown in the Underhive.  Even she does not suspect that she is not only artificial, but a heretical artifact of such magnitude that her very presence dooms all of Scintilla, should she be uncovered. 

Ok, i've tried to stay as close to the rules as possible for the original concept of the Astral Spectre, but there have been a few modifications to make it parse more sensibly in the DH setting..

This isnt an attempt to re-write the Astral Spectre in the DH Handbook, that has little similarity to the original Astral Spectre. They make for an interesting addition to the Beastiary..