He was tall and white-furred before a failed experiment exploded and mangled his body, so an intricate iron mask of his own invention now covers his hairless skull and a cunningly wrought exoskeleton aids his withered left side. The contraption is run by a Warp-generator that siphons the Winds of Magic to also power Ikit’s devilish inventions.
Ikit is from the game Total Warhammer 3. 
Skaven usually refer to every other living being but Skaven as "race+thing", like "man-thing", "elf-thing", etc.