In battle they use Clan Eshin's specially designed hand weapons suited to their martial discipline but they may also deploy snare-nets: light, barbed nets used for slowing down enemies or in the harvesting of slaves. Gutter runners are credited with the destruction of many Skaven histories once kept in Imperial libraries and for locating all the surviving vampires of the Von Carstein dynasty for the Council of Thirteen. As with the night runners, Gutter runners may be hired from Clan Eshin by other Skaven clans.