"Have you ever considered that the skull throne could be a metaphor? 'Khorne cares not from whence the blood flows, only that it flows.' Once stripped off the flesh, a skull is a skull - every skull in the skull throne is the same as the other. War does not differentiate between people, and the high nobles bleed and die as easily as the common slaves. It doesn't need to be about literal skulls."

Vael smiles.

"But yeah, we ought to get moving. Command the men, Geron."