A Verminlord is the supreme manifestation of the Skavens' sole daemonic deity, the Horned Rat. These daemons are by far the strongest and most fearsome the Under-Empire has ever known. The Verminlords are thought to be the daemonic forms of ancient Lords of Decay, warped by the influence of the Horned Rat into his immortal servants. A Verminlord is at once majestic and disgusting, a living icon of ruin, the ultimate scavenger. Although such a being towers in height, it is lithe and quick, its movements evoking the fluid, yet twitchy, scuttling of rats.[1a]