Kabalite Warrior - Role: The warriors of the Drukhari Kabals lie at the heart of every Drukhari strike force, pirate fleet and slave raider assault. They are the cruelest members of their caste, hungry for power over their fellows and thirsty to taste the suffering of others.Each warrior will have forged a fearsome reputation for himself in the war-torn halls of High Commorragh, and has proven himself in multiple battles to be a merciless combatant. The more vicious and ruthless a warrior is, the better his chances for advancement within the Kabal.Only a born killer can thrive within the backstabbing halls of the Dark City and only a chosen few of true skill and utter cruelty are selected by the Kabal leadership to enjoy the thrill and privilege of striking at the worlds of realspace and returning with living souls, the screaming booty that every Kabal requires for its survival.Only the most skilled at arms among the Drukhari of each of the Dark City's sectors are selected to serve as Kabalite Warriors. Whether male or female in gender, Drukhari Kabalite Warriors are tall, whipcord thin and athletically built, more powerful in body and violent in temperament than those of their brethren who remain behind in the Webway.When they go to war, each warrior encases him or herself in a sophisticated bodysuit of segmented, powered Aeldari armour, similar to the suits worn by the Craftworld Aeldari.These suits are donned during long, and usually painful pre-combat rituals, the better to ensure the warrior's psyche has been honed to a single point of murderous intent, somewhat like those Aeldari Aspect Warriors who "put on their war mask" when they go to battle, though Kabalite Warriors express only the darkest and most violent extremes of Khaine's battle-madness.Much of the armour is held in place using long metal barbs that penetrate deep into the warrior's nerve bundles, sharpening his senses by subjecting him to constant pain.It is pain that energises the Kabalite Warriors and it is pain they hope to inflict upon their prey -- and the more merciless and agonising, the better. To this end, Kabalite Warriors make use of a wide-array of particularly devious and deadly weapons.Foremost amongst these is the dread Splinter Rifle, which is a long-barelled and elegantly-shaped kinetic weapon that fires a stream of jagged crystalline slivers, much like the Craftworld Aeldari's Shuriken Weapons.However, each needle-like shard is impregnated with a wide spectrum of potential hypertoxins. A Splinter Rifle can slay its target over several extremely excruciating moments as the toxin does its work, allowing the jubilant wielder of the rifle to savour their victim's agonising death as a gourmand might savour a fine meal.Though the distilled poisons of a Splinter Weapon can kill even the monstrous, biologically-engineered living weapons of the Tyranids, it is of little use against heavily armoured enemy vehicles.A squad of Kabalite Warriors will usually carry a far more destructive weapon for this purpose -- the Blaster is a particular favorite, for it can destroy even a Space Marine Land Raider with only a single shot. All Kabalite Warriors are also experts in close combat-fighting, though few have the political pull needed to ensure that they can claim regeneration in the lairs of the Haemonculi.As such, Kabalite Warriors often employ heavy ranged weaponry to avoid the severe injuries melee combat can bring. The sightlinks built into their Splinter Cannons and Dark Lances not only improve accuracy but also allow the wielder to watch his victim's agony as each weapon blast penetrates flesh and bone.The more imaginative warriors use mnemonic scopes to record such events, replaying the hologhosts created upon their return and basking in the envy of their fellows at their skill and foresight.