However, by this time internecine fighting had spread throughout the Under-Empire and no-one was listening to even the mighty Lords of Decay any more. Clan Skryre seized the temple in an unshakeable grip and Lord Morskittar emerged to declare himself ruler of Skavenblight. Ikit Claw's spells were unstoppable and he swept the temple precincts clear of the battling factions with fiery blasts and hails of dark blades. When the time was ripe Lord Morskittar sent Ikit Claw to lead the Warlock Engineers to the temple, ostensibly to restore order. Sure enough Clan Pestilens made an attempt to seize the council chamber and fighting spilled over into Skavenblight. lkit Claw hastened to his side and stood ready. Lord Morskittar had withdrawn to the Clan Skryre quarter of Skavenblight and was waiting for the inevitable collapse. When he returned to Skavenblight lkit Claw found his master and the other Lords of Decay teetering on the brink of civil war after the failure of Clan Pestilens' Red Pox in Bretonnia. From his great journeying, Ikit Claw drew together an encyclopedic knowledge of the spells of the civilised races. He risked the wrath of Clan Pestilens by journeying through the steaming jungles of Lustria and visiting the monolithic ruins which have stood there since the beginning of time. He visited distant Cathay to steal secrets from the ancient human mystics and he rifled the buried vaults of Vorshgar in the northern wastes of Naggaroth. Over the decades prior to the second Skaven civil war, Ikit Claw travelled secretly to the far flung corners of the Under-Empire. Ikit Claw is one of the most powerful sorcerers in the Old World, and he has dedicated his long life to the study of all forms of magic and science, including the spells and technology of Men, Elves and Dwarfs. Ikit Claw unleashing the powers of the Warp. Chief Warlock Ikit Claw, taking command of the Bonestash Expedition. Squeak-swear to serve me or join that fool-meat in death. Should nothing stop this mad tinker-rat from continuing on in his research, he may create a weapon so powerful and diabolical that it could threaten the very world to total annihilation. Infernal devices and diabolical weapons were soon being assembled on a level never before seen. As the newly assigned lead emissary of Lord Morskittar, the ruler of Clan Skryre, lkit Claw ordered massive warpforges, and unrivalled armouries to be gnawed into the stone beneath Skavenblight. It was during the great Civil War that Ikit seized his opportunity. It would take centuries to fully implement his grandiose changes. Upon his return, Ikit found the warpforges of Clan Skryre woefully under-developed. In his quest for knowledge, lkit has travelled the world, stealing secrets from the mystics of Cathay, studying the dimension-spanning machines of Lustria, and toiling for years alongside the cruel Forgemasters of far off Zharr-Naggrund. Entire legions of Skavenslaves have been blasted to bits in the name of Ikit's experimental new weapons, a small price to pay for the sheer power and killing might that Ikit has added to Clan Skryre's deadly arsenal. Ikit Claw has taken Clan Skryre's mix of science and sorcery to new levels of complexity and depravity. Ikit Claw, Chief Warlock Engineer of Clan Skryre, is one of the most ambitious and talented Warlock-Engineers of his age and the infamous Right-Fang of Lord Morskittar, the one true ruler of Clan Skryre.
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