Using information as a weapon is fun, but sometimes you need to go a bit more old school. The Clade Venenum Assassin is an expert with poisons, toxins, and venoms – an arsenal of nasty chemicals strong enough to take down even the toughest prey.
It is said that the Assassins of the Clade Venenum had the highest success rate among the Terran Temples during the Age of Darkness.* Their Assassins were selected from the finest alchemists who could create exotic concoctions that could cause death without leaving any metabolic trace.
The new miniature is cast in finely-detailed Forge World resin. In games it can unleash a toxin ejector and a hookfang to poison your enemies. The poison on the hookfang is so effective that it causes damage long after the initial attack. If the target is unfortunate enough to survive first contact, that is.**
As one of Malcador’s agents, the Clade Venenum Assassin can be fielded by Loyalist forces, and rules for using them in games of Warhammer: The Horus Heresy will be available in Liber Imperium.
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* Read more about how Clade Venenum Assassins operate in the Horus Heresy novel Nemesis.
** Rumours say that only three people have ever survived this lethal toxin, one of whom is the Grandmaster of Clade Venenum herself.