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Albino Skaven; Is there fluff
Topic Started: 21st June 2005 - 03:41 PM (883 Views)
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I am thinking about painting the Skaven white instead of browns and blacks. I was trying to work up some albino fluff for them. Is a "white" skaven army possible? Is there any fluff written for albino Skaven anywhere?

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albinos are very rare, very sacred, and are the religious elite.

Being an albino marks a skaven as one who is made for a position of power. It's also religious oriented.

They become grey seers, priests and the albino temple guard. You won't usually see a bunch of albino clanrats.
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Albino Skaven why not I don't know about any fluff for that but why not I did an albino Lizardman army
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but it is all up to you, it is just a game, but if you want to have a army just like the history, then you could not have an albino.

If you read the last short story in old skaven rule book, you will see that ,EVEN the albino guards, is maby noy albinos!!!

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Jun 21 2005, 11:51 AM
Albino Skaven why not I don't know about any fluff for that but why not I did an albino Lizardman army

Well, albinos are a Sacred Sowaning, so that would not be legal but.....
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You could make it one of the personal armies of Tower, all the tower gaurds being Albino's, it could be one of the armies sent by the CO13 to make sure something happens or to prevent something from happening or merely just to curb some clans into line.
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Tower? I am going to show my ignorance. What tower are you referring to?

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Jun 22 2005, 07:20 PM
Tower? I am going to show my ignorance. What tower are you referring to?

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The Shattered Tower!
It's where the Council meets, where the Pillar of Commandment stands. It's what the order of the Seers call 'home'. It's where the Albino Guards serve.

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At the very core of the city was Skavendom's heart. The temple of the Horned Rat stabbed truculently into the heavens in defiance of all the Gods its architect's pandered to. Dark clouds gripped the cancerous place whose stone was now black from soot and dried blood. The once elegant and exquisitely wrought design was now cracked and warped from the wriggling roots of raw magic that wove into every brick and layer of mortar.
Within the unholy cloud-piercing spike dwelt the Skaven priesthood and their elite albino guard who feared no mortal beast and who would kill Seer or self at a word.
The fanatic warriors formed a unique force that protected and served the sacred place as a private army.


@Srivener; true.. some are born, but I think most become albino's when they are made Council Guards; it;s a sign from the Horned One.. not always from birth.
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The only Skavens who could be albino or have white fur are the Grey Seers and the Albino Guard of the Horned Rat's Temple.
They are like sacred, it's a mark that proof they are the choosen of the Rat God.

Grey Seers are born albino, but for the Albino Guard, we don't know. The army book of the Five Version tell us a lot of things about it, in the novels where Thanquol describ the guards and their strange fur.

A army like this isn't fluff. But you can always create a list to play the albino guard of the Shattered Tower. ;)

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Just make up your oun fluff. Say that you were some lost clan or something and Albino's are common at your neck of the woods, or something like that.

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Thanks for posting the fluff. If my test models turns out alright then the Albino guards of the tower will be on secret missions and doing the will of the council.

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i wanted to do lbinos too, if u lead by grey seer, couodnt u say that it is his highley religous warriors/cult that are marching with him, or mayb they werre bred white by moulder as a special gift sorta thingy.... id paint mine sorta more grey than white tho
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I would not recommend albinos... but if you want to, just do an elite army from the Co13, as was already said.

What I wonder is why you would want to paint them albino? I think it would look pretty un-skaveny as an army...
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Jun 24 2005, 01:16 PM

What I wonder is why you would want to paint them albino? I think it would look pretty un-skaveny as an army...


Why? To be different. It really depends on how my test models turn out. My "Albino" will be a grayish white not a true white like GW's Skull white.

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