Servitor Wheelchair

Due to recent developments in my Dark Heresy campaign I humbly present to you the servitor wheelchair.

At times, a servant of the Emperor is grievously wounded while performing his duty. But only in death does duty end, as we all know. And thus, the servant has to struggle on. In Sinophia Magna exists an ancient hospice called the House of Alms. Like the whole hive, this institution is hovering uneasily between decadence and utter dissolution. But when the arbitrators asked for something, anything to keep a crippled dignitary mobile, the house provided.

The wheelchair is made from black, lacquered wood with huge wheels extending nearly to the head of the person placed within. The varnish is scratched, and there are unwholesome spatters on the maroon leather of the seat and the backrest. The chair has a high back, keeping the patient very straight. Leather straps fixate the legs of the patient on a metal rest, while his arms remain free.

Behind the backrest, a servitor is placed. The medicae tell that it was once an infamous strangler terrorizing the docksides of Sinophia Magna in service of the Rag Court. Now it spends eternity serving the frail. Its legs are gone, and its long hands rest on the wheels. There are extensive lobotomy scars on its skull. Its back is studded with brass studs, glass tubes and wires. Its mouth was sewed shut and his ears replaced by brass grilles, but its calm, curiously mild eyes remain. The patient can use common gothic to direct the servitor, which turns the wheels with its long arms, assists with simple tasks and helps the patient to rise from the wheelchair.

The armrests of the machine contain a small dedicated cogitator linked to a drug injector rig. If the patient should suffer any kind of physical crisis, the rig will inject him automatically with a potent mixture to keep him breathing just a little longer.

The huge, black wheelchair with the lank figure of the servitor hovering over its backrest is speedily delivered to the arbitrators' HQ, for there waits a broken servant of the Golden Throne who still needs to go to dark places.