Khorne Icon-Bearer

Saves: Willpower +5

Banner of Brass. Khornate allies within 30 feet gain +5 ft. Movement when moving toward enemies and may collectively reroll one missed charge attack per round.

Blood-Anointed. The icon drips. When an ally within 30 feet reduces an enemy to 0 Vitality, that ally automatically passes its next save.

It Must Not Fall. If the bearer dies, a Khornate ally within 10 feet may take up the icon as a free action, becoming the new bearer and gaining +1 to melee attacks for the rest of the scene.

Ground the Icon. The bearer plants the standard. Until the icon moves again, its aura holds at that point and deepens: Khornate allies within 30 feet of it also ignore all penalties for being bloodied.

Goading Sweep. Melee Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 1d8 + 3 bludgeoning damage. Hit or miss, one Khornate ally within 15 feet may immediately move up to its Movement toward an enemy it can see.

Morale: Fights to the death at the icon. The icon matters; the bearer never did.

Tactics: March it in the mob's center where its radius covers the most blades. The party will identify it fast — that is the point: reaching it means wading into everything the icon is accelerating. When it falls, let the frenzy sputter visibly, then have someone else pick it up at the worst moment.

Loot / Evidence / Hooks: The brass icon itself — a corrupting trophy the Inquisition pays to see destroyed, never delivered.

The Khorne Icon-Bearer carries a blood-smeared brass icon that drives nearby cultists forward like a goad. Around it, the frenzy is organized — every blade within sight of the icon points the same direction.

Use this enemy to turn a Khornate mob from a wave into a spearhead and to give the party a mid-fight objective worth the risk.

Moderate durability, modest melee, powerful ally frenzy amplification, morale immunity radius, high-value kill.

Banner of Brass. Khornate allies within 30 feet gain +5 ft. Movement toward enemies and reroll one missed charge attack per round.

Blood-Anointed. The icon drips; allies who kill within its radius are immediately steadied (pass their next save automatically).

It Must Not Fall. If the bearer dies, any Khornate ally within reach takes up the icon, gaining frenzy in the process.

Ground the Icon. Plants the standard; its aura holds there and doubles in fervor (allies in radius ignore being bloodied) until it moves.

Goading Sweep. Melee attack with the icon's haft that drives an ally into an immediate free charge.

Morale: Fights to the death at the icon; the icon matters, the bearer never did.

Tactics: March it in the mob's center where its radius covers the most blades. The party will identify it fast — that is the point: reaching it means wading into everything the icon is accelerating. When it falls, let the frenzy sputter visibly, then have someone else pick it up at the worst moment.

Full Stat Block Priority: Medium