Clan Rikek
Clan Rikek was a skaven Warlord clan. [1a][2a]
History
In -1325 IC, when the Council of Thirteen discovered that there were vast deposits of Warpstone under Cripple Peak, they gave the leader of the clan, Eekrit Backbiter command of a huge force of more than 50,000 Skaven from all the great clans. He was tasked with destroying the skeletons that were currently mining the stone and returning it to the council, where it would be divided among the clans. [3a]
Following the assassination of Nagash, the clan oversaw the extensive warpstone mining under Nagashizzar using enslaved local humans and quickly growing rich and powerful. [1a][2a]
Several centuries after they had laid claim to the stronghold of the Great Necromancer, Nagash returned and with his horde of undead, slaughtered the clan in a single night. [1a]
Notable
Sources
- 1: Children of the Horned Rat
- 1a: Chapter Two, pg. 30
- 2: Warhammer Armies: Skaven (4th Edition)
- 2a: The History of the Skaven, pg. 15
- 3: Rise of Nagash (anthology) by Mike Lee: Nagash Immortal
- 3a: Prologue, pg. 620