Drusilla Ludovica

Drusilla Ludovica, known as Ludovica Murderqueen, is a human mutant that serves as leader of the Murderwing brotherhood of the Shadow Reavers warband of Chaos Space Marines. Her unique hulking size and stature, as well as the Warp-bound power armour she possesses, makes her rival the Astartes of the warband in terms of brute strength and killing prowess.

A Chaos mutant of tremendous size, Ludovica was the tyrannical leader of a hidden cult of Chaos on the planet of Skaar before the planet was raided by the Dark Eldar. Assailed and enslaved, her cult was scattered and Ludovica herself captured as prize, fated to fight in the pits of Commoragh as a curiosity.

Liberated from her captors by the Reavers, she repaid the favour by fending off a squad of Wyches and killing several mercilessly, this act giving her a place among the warband as an acolyte. But her extraordinary combat prowess could not be contained in the Reavers' Auxiliary, and soon her skills elevated her to such high renown that she was given the Armour of Telemachus, the personal power armour of one of the Reavers felled by the Drukhari as reward. It fit seamlessly for such was her tremendous size, rivaling even the Astartes themselves. Although she bore no Black Carapace to interface with it, the suit of armour has long since fused with her flesh, becoming one. And having made her pilgrimage to the Black Planet and having been accepted by its hidden denizens, her form is likewise hidden by the black warp energies that inundate that planet.

Drusilla Ludovica is a savage: brutal and bloodthirsty in the extreme. As she rose through the ranks to become the Shadow Lord of the Murderwing, her love of battle and the name of the Brotherhood she now leads earned her the moniker Murderqueen. Reveling in hewing her enemies with sharp, warp-tainted claws, Ludovica is the joyous violence of battle personified. But above all else, she is loyal to the warband that let her earn such high honours, something she never could as a mutant hiding in the Imperium’s most wretched gutters.