Reikenor's Condemned is the procession that hunts the grave's cheats, and it is led by the greatest cheat of them all. Reikenor the Grimhailer spent his mortal genius on a single project: not dying. And when Nagash closed a hand around him, the Great Necromancer set him to collect everyone still attempting the same escape. At the head of his Condemned, the Grimhailer rides down necromancers hoarding stolen years, soul-traders, and kings who have bought themselves forbidden time.
The cruelty and the logic of the procession are one, for many of the spirits bound within it were, in life, exactly the sort of offender they now pursue. Wizards who bargained for immortality and lost now press forward in Reikenor's train, condemned to enforce the sentence they earned. Who better to catch a grave-cheat than a column of grave-cheats who tried every trick first?
That is the design, and it is pure Nagash: a punishment that doubles as a workforce. The magicians they hunt often plead, and sometimes the Grimhailer answers before the scythe falls: that he understands, that he once agreed, and that among the Nighthaunt understanding has never once been the same thing as mercy.
Order of battle
The Reikenor's Condemned field the units of the Nighthaunt, a detachment from the roster:
Other Nighthaunt formations
The Emerald HostShyishan folklore tells of the emerald gheist: a green-lit spirit that appears at a highborn deathbed as a curse upon the whole bloodline. The Emerald Host is the folktale made true: a procession that manifests as an omen before the fall of great houses, then arrives in force to collect. Entire dynasties have beggared themselves on wards and blessings against it, and every one of them now marches in its ranks.
The Grieving LegionA funeral cortège that has never once reached the grave, the Grieving Legion drifts to war beneath rotted mourning banners in numbers beyond counting. Its spirits enfold the enemy the way family crowds a coffin, pressing close in a suffocating ring of sorrow. Those caught within discover that the Legion does not permit mourners to leave before the service is done.
The Scarlet DoomWhere other processions drift, the Scarlet Doom strikes: a shrieking spearhead of Bladegheist Revenants that hits a battleline like a scythe through standing wheat. Its name comes from what remains when the whirling blades move on. The spirits of this procession died panicked, violent deaths, and they are compelled to share that ending with everyone they find.
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