Butchers

Deep within the Asylum cities the endless hordes of the Asylumists fought. From the very moment they emerged into the world their waking moments began with the lust for slaughter. They would kill or be killed, only the most savage able to fight their way out from the center of the machines that brought them into the world where they could find more worthy prey. The Asylum cities descended into a hellish landscape of blood and war, bodies clogged the streets as fighting continued all across this landscape of dead. The Blood Engines watched as their kin tore each other to pieces,how they learned to quickly utilize weapons and adapted to their quarry. Although they could enslave vast numbers to serve them like the Death Squads and Heavies there would never be enough. The same unending waves that tore through the other races on the planet would also set their sights on them as well. Power was needed, stronger more destructive weapons and machines had to be deployed to keep the horde, and other would be attackers at bay. The Blood Engines devised a way of gaining access to an abundant power source for their endeavors, the endless mass of bodies that now piled up amongst the buildings. Soon giant machines drilled and tunneled through the sky scraper tall piles of the dead, spewing out blood and puss. In some areas of the Asylum cities it literally rains blood as the gargantuan machines mash up the biological waste into a usable bio-fuel. With their fuel source secured the Blood Engines made their way into the old factories of the former residents of the Asylum cities and set to work on their production lines. All across the cities, glowing factories sprang up billowing black smoke into the air, the sound of machines and roar of forges echoed out across the plains carried along with the screams of murder. Although they now had access to an abundant power supply to fuel their experiments, they knew that the Horde would attack their Grinders mercilessly to get to the pilots, and so a bodyguard was created. Butchers would ride atop the huge caterpillar like Grinders to ensure any hitchhikers with the intent on killing the driver were quickly seen to. Pumped with chemicals to make them hardier, stronger and regenerative they serve alongside the machines of the Blood Engines, and in some cases venture onto the battlefield for their masters.