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The Asylumists

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From deep within the blood-soaked Asylum cities pour the creatures of nightmare known as the Asylumists.

From the moment they enter the world, emerging from the cold, lifeless mechanisms of great machines, they are set upon by their own kin. Only those who survive the onslaught through sheer brutality and ferocity make it beyond the machines’ confines to wreak havoc upon the world beyond.

Their numbers incalculable, the survivors swarm over and beneath the lands, seizing weapons and vehicles to aid them in their bloody slaughter.

Such is their lust for violence that the piles of their dead reach high into the sky. Yet even in death, they do not know peace.

Weapons roar and screams echo as the fighting continues, the combatants crushing bodies beneath their feet. Deep below, the shunting engines of great mechanical worms plough their maws through the mass, mashing the corpses into biofuel to feed the nightmarish industries of the Asylum cities.

The frenzied Hordes are not alone. Many find themselves under the influence of sinister minds that reshape them into cybernetic soldiers, specialised killers, or horrific walking weapons.

Now you control the Horde.

Where you point, they destroy.

Send forth your frenzied masses to swarm the enemy beneath an unstoppable tide, or surgically remove threats with specialised units forged for a singular, murderous purpose.

The violence is endless. Their numbers are without measure.

Your Asylumists await your command.

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Bogeyman

Now bolstered by the vast numbers of Underan Warriors and Vomaran Lancers of the Dark Blade, the Coalition pushed further towards the Asylum cities. As they…

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Scarecrow

Much of Sythopia’s surface is littered with ruins. The cities that once engulfed the world were built from materials designed to endure far longer than the…

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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…

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Death Head illustration

Death Head

Not all Death Squad are created equal. As more Horde are dragged through the factories of the Blood engines, some are used as test subjects for weapons, others are fitted with explosives to become…

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Death Spider illustration

Death Spider

The Death Squad were the first variant of the mass waves that came spilling from the Asylum cities. After their emergence more and more varied and terrifying Asylumists emerged. Back in the depths of…

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Death Squad illustration

Death Squad

In the beginning the Horde swept over the land alone. Smashing all aside with sheer numbers and ferocity, the unprecedented waves of the Asylumists almost annihilated the forces of the Coalition. It wasn’t until…

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Death Squad Shredders illustration

Death Squad Shredders

The Asylum cities were a haven for the Asylumists to arm themselves and proceed with their bloody murder. Stockpiled with weapons, equipment and vehicles, the Horde quickly amassed a formidable armory and turned it…

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Green Eyes illustration

Green Eyes

No one has been within view of the Asylum cities since the end of the Asylumist War. The statements from that time, now hundreds of years old, speak of cities that might as well…

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Green Eyes Cauldron illustration

Green Eyes Cauldron

As the smog gathers overhead and the air becomes filled with toxic fumes, strange glowing lights can be seen moving between the ruins, the shadows of sinister constructs flowing over the corpses of those…

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Green Eyes Loader illustration

Green Eyes Loader

Many machines shunt and haul within the Blood Engines factories. The Twisted Masters of the Asylumist forces are consistently tinkering to find faster, more efficient ways for their minions to do their tasks. Armed…

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Horde illustration

Horde

When the first reports of attacks began to emanate from the Asylum cities the Coalition, that would later become the Confederation, took this as a clear sign that their long time enemies the Guardians…

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Twisted Horde illustration

Twisted Horde

There is no limit to the machinations of the Asylumist Blood Engines. From within their strongholds, they toil on all manner of nightmarish creations. One such horror is the Twisted Horde, a mutilated, grafted…

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The Fall of the Asylum Cities illustration

The Fall of the Asylum Cities

The Coalition and the people of the Asylum cities enjoyed a long and prosperous friendship. The Coalition offered protection from the various scavenger groups and access to their facilities. At the same time, the…

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