Deathskulls

"Da best looterz in da 'oonivers, dese is thievin' blighters wiv loadsa runts and grots runnin' about nikkin' stuff." - Attributed Unknown

"Wot, dis? Naw, I've had this fer ages.  Of course the paint's still wet, it's me favourite.  Sell it to ya if you like.  One careful owner." - 'Fingaz' Rutzeg. Deathskull Loota

Clan History
The Death Skulls are plunderers without equal. They are tremendously good at looting, borrowing, scrounging, scavenging, and stealing things from their fellow Orks, and notoriously bad at giving them back. Death Skulls would make capable scientists and excellent engineers if their fascination for new things lasted longer than the time it took to steal them.

The Death Skulls see battle as a two-stage process, often hurrying the killing part in an effort to speed along the scavenging spree that follows. After the battle the Boyz really go to work, feverishly stripping the corpses of the fallen of everything from ammunition to bootlaces. Many Death Skulls will take grisly trophies such as their victim's scalp or skull into the bargain. Only when the loot is returned to the camp does the inevitable infighting break out as the Death Skulls trade, barter and auction off their ill-gotten gains.

Once they have stolen something, they personalise it to establish ownership once and for all. This often involves painting it blue, the colour which they believe attracts the eye of their gods and protects them from harm. The superstitious Death Skulls even use blue warpaint, sometimes going so far as to paint themselves blue from head to toe the night before battle.

This clan has a lot of clever and enterprising Gretchin. The Death Skulls also attracts a number of loose-wallahs because of their reputation as a bunch of looters, spivs, and wide-boys. As battlefield plunderers and petty camp pilferers, they often get themselves a bad name among the other clans for selling dodgy gear that isn't good enough for the Death Skull Orks to keep for themselves.

Clan Beliefs
The Orks of this clan are notoriously superstitious and have developed the odd habit of painting themselves in blue warpaint. They believe the colour blue is lucky and that it attracts the attention and favour of the Ork war gods, and thus brings them better fortune on the fields of plunder.

Clan Colours
Blue is considered to be a magical colour among this clan, who also paint themselves with blue warpaint to attract good luck. Skulls and bones feature prominently among their personal adornments. For instance, helmets are often cast or fashioned in the form of a grinning skull. Death Skull Orks are commonly seen festooned with bone amulets of every kind: pendants, talismans, and cherished bits of long-dead enemies. Such things hold power for the Death Skull Clan. Some Death Skull warriors wear dozens of enemy ribs laced together to form a kind of breastplate. They often appear in bizarre styles of dress, the spoils of their battlefield plunder of the fallen to augment their own wargear. This results in a rag-tag appearance of various items of armour and coloured clothing, made up of various uniforms sewn together.

Clan Icon
Death Skull's use a horned death's head as their totem.