Spoilers: Character background and the origin of Skarbrand’s exile; no campaign ending.
A servant who struck his god
Skarbrand is a Bloodthirster who once stood among the greatest of Khorne’s daemons. His slaughter filled the Skull Throne with offerings. Pride and rage eventually drove him to strike the Blood God himself.
That attack brought Khorne’s punishment and Skarbrand’s exile. His title, “the Exiled”, comes from this break with the god he had served.
The punishment and the wanderer
Khorne cursed Skarbrand and stripped away his personality, leaving only rage. The daemon survived the punishment with his strength and violence intact, but without the mind he had possessed before the attack.
He continues to wander the mortal and immortal realms, killing without fully understanding the reason for his exile. His attempts to answer that punishment with slaughter form the background of the character.
The Exiles in Immortal Empires
In Total War: Warhammer III, Skarbrand leads the Exiles of Khorne. Immortal Empires places this faction in the shared campaign world, with Bloodletters and other followers around its Bloodthirster leader.
The campaign page explains his availability and battlefield role. Skulltaker and Arbaal lead other Khorne factions, each with a different campaign system built around service to the Blood God.
Wings that do not carry him
The Khorne roster adds the scale of the old crime. No other daemon of Khorne had piled so many skulls before the Skull Throne. On one day the pride boiled over and he struck the Blood God. Khorne cursed his name and choked the personality out of him, leaving the rage that had swung the blow. He still wanders mortal and immortal realms, drowning the offence in blood without the wit to understand why.
He stays on the ground. The launch answers on Kislev and Khorne say his wings are ruined and he does not fly. A wing-flap can still hurl him forward. That is a jump, not flight. Exalted Bloodthirsters are the flying monsters of the same army. The exile is heavier, and less free, than the daemons who never raised a hand to their god.
A penalty even other Khorne factions keep
The Exiles of Khorne carry a diplomatic penalty with other Khornate factions. The campaign notes treat the blow against Khorne as something those factions do not forgive. Skulltaker’s Blooded Wanderers and Arbaal’s Challengers serve the same god and still are not his lieutenants. Bloodletters can appear in all three armies. Forgiveness does not.
In battle the roster calls him a centrepiece of blood and rage, hard for magic to shift, and a commander who wants the army in contact. Wrathful Reaper and Rage Embodied are his named tools. Slaughter and Carnage grow as the kills accumulate. They are the game’s names for a fury that scales. They are not a second personality. Khorne already took that.
Update 9.0 lets Archaon subjugate Skarbrand after beating him, and gives the Exiles’ regions to a new Khorne vassal. The same list includes Skulltaker and Arbaal. Subjugation is a campaign rule. It is not Khorne taking the curse back.
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Sources
- Khorne roster reveal — Total War — totalwar.com
- Kislev and Khorne Q&A — Total War — totalwar.com
- Khorne campaign mechanics — Total War — totalwar.com
- Update 9.0 release notes — Total War — totalwar.com
- SEGA Immortal Empires ownership guide — support.sega.com
- Skulltaker – Omens of Destruction on Steam — store.steampowered.com
- CA patch 5.1: Karanak — community.creative-assembly.com