Skulltaker - History: It is said that when Khorne created U'zuhl, the first thing the new Daemon did was decapitate the first creature it saw, another Bloodletter, which pleased the Blood God immensely. So began an existence of decapitation that has spread terror throughout the mortal and immortal universes.After its bloody awakening, U'zhul wandered the realms of the Warp and of reality in search of the mightiest foes against which to test its martial skill, and mortal or not, all warriors fell to its blade.When the Bloodletter took its eight hundred and eighty-eighth skull, the daemonic champion in the making was chosen by its god to enter the Skullpit, the proving ground of all Khorne's Bloodletter champions. There U'zhul was not only unmatched, but beheaded every one of its opponents without receiving so much as a scratch in return.In recognition of U'zhul's achievement, Khorne not only anointed it as both a Herald and its Sacred Executioner, but bestowed the singular title of "Skulltaker." The Daemon's body swelled with Warp energies, and as an extension of its form, its Hellblade also grew in power.Thus was formed the Slayer Sword, a formidable weapon capable of cutting through reinforced plasteel and felling even the most monstrous of beasts with a single blow.In the midst of every battle it participates in, Skulltaker seeks out the mightiest foes on the battlefield so that it may slay them itself with its serrated Hellblade. A duellist beyond compare, Skulltaker weaves its blade in bloody crescents that dismember, but rarely slay.Those who flee this confrontation are cut down without remorse, while those who stand their ground usually suffer the same fate, though at a slower and far more painful pace. Skulltaker likes to take its time with foes, dismembering them limb by limb yet not taking their life until the end to prolong its pleasure in the slaughter.Only when its opponent is a limbless horror upon the ground does it offer up death, grabbing their head, intoning the eight Words of Sacrifice while it uses Warpflame to wreathe the victim's head in hellfire, burning away flesh and muscle until only a bare, charred skull remains. With a savage twist, the Sacred Executioner tears free the naked trophy, snapping it from the spine and holding it aloft for all to see.Skulltaker then places it within the grisly sack it carries, which contains all the other skulls it has liberated from their owners during the battle. The Daemon butchers its way towards its next victim, and proceeds to enact the same ritual, over and over again, until no foe worthy of its undivided attentions remains.Since its ascension, this Champion of Khorne has carved a bloody path through the millennia. Skulltaker fought alongside the Daemon Primarch Angron on Armageddon, cutting down several Grey Knights Brother-Captains in its infinite wrath.On Agrippina-6, Skulltaker slew the Ork Grimsnag Urk in a titanic duel that lasted a solar day and a night, the combatants wading through the mutilated corpses of the Warlord's once unstoppable horde.A full score of Craftworld Aeldari Exarchs fell to its blade during the fighting at Haranshemash, even their prodigious skill and experience falling short of the Herald's. Indeed, every race in the galaxy has its fearful legends concerning Skulltaker and its horrific exploits.When the Daemon eventually returns to the Brass Citadel within the Realm of Chaos, Skulltaker presents its trophies to its master. Most, Khorne takes for itself; they are impaled upon brass spikes that adorn the Blood God's keep.A few -- those belonging to warriors that offered their killer a real challenge before they fell -- Khorne begrudgingly allows the greatest of its Sacred Executioners to keep.Skulltaker weaves these into the horrific Cloak of Skulls it wears using bloody sinew taken from the bodies of other victims, to sit alongside its other great triumphs.