Crown Marshal (Praetor)

Crown Marshal

The Crown Marshals stand among the highest nobility of the Infernal Crusader Houses. Each is the patriarch of an ancient crusader bloodline that vanished from the mortal world after the Act of Ultimate Heresy and endured centuries of unending war within the realms of Hell. The domains they govern are not inherited through birth alone but continually defended through conquest, political rivalry, and martial supremacy. Every knight, squire, servant, mercenary, and soul sworn to a noble house exists to uphold its honor and expand its dominion, making the Marshal not only a battlefield commander but the absolute ruler of an infernal feudal court.

Hell has reshaped these ancient commanders into beings that embody warfare itself. A Crown Marshal grows stronger with every worthy enemy he defeats, for victory leaves behind more than memory. The bodies of fallen champions, their armor, weapons, and even fragments of their souls are gradually absorbed into the Marshal's own form, becoming inseparable from his flesh. Broken blades emerge from beneath blackened plate like new bones, shields disappear beneath layers of living armor, and firearms once wielded by legendary warriors fuse into monstrous limbs capable of unleashing devastating volleys. Every scar upon his body marks a conquered enemy, every weapon is a trophy that has become part of its new master, and every campaign literally reshapes the creature into a greater engine of war.

The grotesque wings that rise from a Crown Marshal's back are among the oldest curses carried by the Infernal Crusader Houses. They are not wings at all, but the remains of the destrier that bore its master during the final crusade. When the knights were condemned, their steeds shared the same damnation, bound forever to those they had served in life. Over centuries, horse and rider fused into a single infernal organism. The beast's elongated necks emerge from the Marshal's shoulders, their skeletal jaws forever open in silent screams, while ragged pinions of black feathers, torn hide, and broken barding spread behind him like the heraldic crest of a forgotten kingdom. Though they cannot truly fly, these living remnants constantly writhe and howl whenever blood is spilled, as though the warhorse still hungers to charge once more across the fields of the living.

Despite their monstrous appearance, Crown Marshals remain consummate generals rather than berserk horrors. They have spent centuries refining the art of conquest against rivals no mortal empire could survive. They study every battlefield, preserve military treatises older than kingdoms, and remember campaigns fought before entire nations existed. Infernal Houses rise and fall through their victories, and rival Marshals wage endless contests for prestige, territory, and the favor of their infernal overlords. To face one in battle is to confront not merely a demon, but the accumulated experience of a commander who has practiced war without interruption for hundreds of years.

Among the soldiers of the living, an old saying is repeated whenever black banners appear on the horizon: "You do not fight a Crown Marshal. You become another piece of his armor."

"Every victory leaves a scar. Mine simply learned how to carry a sword."


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One model – “Crown Marshal (Praetor)”, designed by Wargames Crew

Total size 106mm
Base size is 50mm

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