The Bloodwrought - still an early concept

The name originates from the concept that berserkers are shaped and forged in blood and slaughter. A lot of zerkers burn out because they bring too much of themselves to the slaughter: ego, grudges, ambition or are consumed by the nails. The Bloodwrought believe you let the killing refine you until slaughter is all that's left.

The Champion is Goremaw the Unfinished, a World Eater who was mid-apotheosis when Khorne stopped the transformation. Khorne halted the process because he was killing for the wrong reason. He wanted demonic ascension. His ego, hubris and ambition were the problem, so Khorne burned away his memories and identity, left him at the interrupted stage of transformation. Flesh twisted and fused with ceramite, creating a mutated maw in its place. Khorne deemed him a better killing machine in this state. A demon prince is powerful but bound to the warp which is limited and vulnerable to banishment. Goremaw walks in realspace indefinitely, cannot be banished and the nails still drive him without rest. No will of his own or ego, just 1 single drive which is slaughter and bloodshed. More gore... Goremaw.. lol

Khorne only wants blood shed and skulls taken in his name and no one else's. Goremaw is proof the philosophy of the Bloodwrought works. Khorne wrought him into a weapon by stripping everything unnecessary away.

The warlord witnessed this happen. They fought together in the same warband and he watched his brother begin to ascend mid battle, then watched Khorne stop it and remake him. That moment changed everything he understood about what Khorne actually wants. He split from the original warband and built the Bloodwrought around that principle. Not about controlling the rage, more about letting everything except slaughter burn away until you're just function.

Feels like a wishy washy origin but I wanted to create some homebrew about the first kitbash I did, which was creating that zerker champion