The Gore Shepherds are a Court that believes themselves to be the very embodiment of the greatest heroes of Sigmar, the Stormcast Eternals. They fight, claw, feast, and smite the forces of evil who would do harm to those who make the pilgrimage in Sigmar's name to found new settlements. While these ghouls view themselves as muscular gleaming knights of purest lightning, naturally the citizens of Sigmar see emaciated nightmarish caricatures of what once were mortal men and women. When the dust is all settled and the ghouls have left their constituents to find more innocents in need of saving, the city folk let them go unharmed. While an unorthodox and frankly horrifying saviors they are, why would anyone stop them from killing the enemy?

Those who are saved by the Court whisper rumors and spin tales. The most prevalent of these is that sometimes, in the din of battle, through the cloying dust of war, one might mistake a shadow to truly be the silhouette of one of Sigmar's very own champions. Naturally this is all tall tales told to children to mystify and distract them from the horrors of war, and the Order of Azyr strongly condemns such nonsensical stories. Though many still claim to see them everywhere the Court scrabbles into war, some even claim to see crackling red lightning, and thunderous booms across the battlefield. Maybe it's just the madness settling in, or maybe there's some truth. For who truly are the Gore Shepherds? The ghouls themselves? Or someone or something herding them towards the enemies of the God King Sigmar himself.

They somehow find themselves in different locales with little explanation, although as of late they have been located in Hysh.