Skavenslave Farmer By Imperator-Zor Watch

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Though not showy like Doomwheels or Warp Lightning Cannons, the invention of the Arclight by an (tragically shortly lived) apprentice Engineer turned out to be one of clan Skryre's most notable inventions. The Skaven are well accustomed to darkness and low light levels and could make candles, oil lamps, braziers and warpstone lanterns before, but unlike those arclights could be used to provide a form of illumination that plants could act as a substitute for sunlight. This meant that hither-to unused caverns could be used for growing food. More food meant more skaven and soon Skyre's factories were working day and night making arclights, wiring and generators powered by watermills, steam engines burning coal and detritus and warpstone reactors to power them to outfight vast stretches of tunnels with growlights for potatoes to better feed the ever growing population of skavendom.



These farms were run by skavenslaves who were kept penned up and fed in separate tunnels where they ate and slept and at all other times were muzzled to keep them from sneaking a bite to eat from the crops they were required to plant, fertilize, water, weed and harvest. Weeding was the task they took to most diligently for any weeds they collected would be mashed into the meagre slop that they'd be fed. Caring and tending for other living things is not something which came naturally to this race of Ratfolk, even with packmasters punishing them if they took their frustation out on some seedlings or a half grown plant. As such a few clans commissioned Clan Moulder to breed a better farming slave than the usual outcasts and rejects of skaven society, or looked into their own more modest breeding programs to cultivate better farmers. The result was a praticularly lowly breed of Skaven largely indistingishable from the rest of their kind, but able to do something most of their kind could not do: show some dim spark of concern for their crops' well being even if they'd never get more than some peeling in their bowl of slop. The majority of skavendom treated these Skavenslave Farmers as being not only being beneath them, but something to be despised for being different (even if they were useful for putting food on the table) and soon rumors got out about Farmers getting loose and infiltrating the mainsteam of Skavendom. Fear of this resulted in several wars, the destruction of three clans and thousands assassinations, bar fights, shivings, lynchings and beatings of subordinates.



All in all their response to the prospect of farmer skaven getting into mainstream skaven society were fairly modest.



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