List of notable Chaos characters
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Special Characters
Abaddon the Despoiler
Abaddon was the highest ranking officer in the Sons of Horus prior to the end of the Horus Heresy. He rose to total dominance after Horus was killed. He currently leads the Black Legion and has launched 13 Black Crusades against the Imperium from the Eye of Terror.
Ahriman
Sorcerer-Lord of the Thousand Sons. Exiled by Magnus The Red.
Fabius Bile
Once Chief Apothecary of the Emperor's Children, Fabius Bile now offers his services as a self-styled 'Primogenitor' of Chaos Space Marines to the various Traitor and Renegade Marine forces.
Cypher
The principal member of the Fallen.
Doomrider
Doomrider is a Daemon Prince of Slaanesh mounted on a special bike. He can be summoned by Chaos Cultists in foul rituals, but seldom stays long in the real universe and leaves as suddenly as he appears.2
Huron Blackheart
Master of the Red Corsairs and commander of the largest pirate fleet in the eastern Imperium.
Khârn the Betrayer
Originally a member of the World Eaters, Khârn is now a favoured Champion of Khorne.
Lucius the Eternal
Originally a member of the Emperor's Children, Lucius is now a favoured Champion of Slaanesh.
Typhus
Originally known as Calas Typhon, First Captain of the Death Guard, Typhus is now recognised as the Herald of Nurgle.
Traitor Primarchs
Alpharius Omegon
Angron
World Eaters Primarch.
Fulgrim
Emperor's Children Primarch.
Horus
Luna Wolves/Sons of Horus Primarch.
Lorgar
Word Bearers Primarch.
Magnus the Red
Thousand Sons Primarch.
Mortarion
Death Guard Primarch.
Night Haunter
Night Lords Primarch
Perturabo
Iron Warriors Primarch.
Chaos Space Marines
Amurael the Corrupted
A Black Legion Chaos Dreadnought which fought with Janus against an entrenched Crimson Fists position in a jungle.1 p3
Lord Bale
Lord Bale was an Alpha Legion commander tasked with searching for the Maledictum on the planet Tartarus.
Bekanor
Bekanor is a Possessed Chaos Space Marine. During a war on Adelphos V when he was newly possessed, he fought against the Imperial Guard and during the slaughter he totally succumbed to the daemon within, known as an emissary.2 p30
Lord Crull
Lord Crull led a warband of the World Eaters known as the Blood Legion of Khorne during the battle for Lorn V to recover a fallen Titan.
Eliphas The Inheritor
Eliphas The Inheritor was a Dark Apostle who lead a Word Bearers force on Kronus.
Firaeveus Carron
Firaeveus Carron was a Khornate champion from the Alpha Legion who led his forces into the Kaurava system in Dawn of War: Soulstorm. The Alpha Legion was operating in the heart of a warp storm, using shrines to keep a permanent link to the warp, which had to be destroyed in order to stop them.
Janus
Janus, champion of the Black Legion and chosen of Chaos, fought against an entrenched Crimson Fists position in a jungle with Amurael the Corrupted.1 p3
Karlsen
Once a Captain of the Thousand Sons, Karlsen became a Champion of Tzeentch and a veteran of the Long War, having fought against the Imperium since the Horus Heresy. A Sorcerer Karlsen took part in nearly all of his Legion's significant history, including the fall of Prospero, the Battle of Terra and countless other combat actions. His lifespan unnaturally extended by his Chaotic patron, Karlsen went completely insane on more than one occasion due to the burden of his experiences, before he invented a ritual to 'partition' his mind and safely store his memories. Karlsen has noticeable mutations: one of his hands is fused to his bolter and he operates the weapon by mental control, whilst the fingers of his other hand have lengthened to become almost tentacle-like.
Warmaster Khuzor
Khuzor was a Chaos Warmaster during the Gothic War. His fleet was first detected entering the Formosa Cluster by the Dauntless Class Light Cruisers Uziel and Baron Surtur which allowed Admiral Sartus to bring him to battle. Nothing else is known of him.11
Devram Korda
Devram Korda, the Tyrant of Sarora, was one of the Chosen of Abaddon. He was said to have distilled the life essence of the citizens of Sarora's largest hive city for a single vial of elixir, which made him virtually invincible. He conquered the entire system and ruled it with an iron fist, distilling more elixirs from the hives under his dominion, until he was toppled by rival Chaos Marines from the Emperor's Children.1
Korgha the Slaughterman
Korgha was a champion of the World Eaters and devout follower of Khorne. He carried a possessed glaive of fearsome power; when Khorgha's body finally succumbed to several mortal wounds, the blade turned itself on him in order to continue the blood flow.1 p36
Kthelmir
Kthelmir, also known as the Supplicor of Chaos Undivided, led his retinue in the Second Purging of Mephites Minoris.1 p15
Sindri Myr
Sindri Myr was an Alpha Legion Sorcerer and Lord Bale's advisor during Alpha Legion's search for the Maledictum. after double crossing Bale, he took the power of the Maledictum for himself to ascend to Daemonhood.
Zso Sahaal
Zso Sahaal was an officer of the Night Lords prior to the Horus Heresy and claims to be the first Raptor.
Ygethmor
Ygethmor is a Chaos Sorcerer Lord and Chosen of Abaddon. He was an adviser to Abaddon during both the 13th Black Crusade and Medusa V campaign.
Daemons
Bubonicus
Lothar (now Bubonicus) was a mortal Champion of Nurgle, born on one of the backwards planets of the galaxy. He now rules a daemon world within the Eye of Terror.14
Dhar'leth
Dhar'leth is a Daemon Prince of the Black Legion and has led them across Antecanis IV1 p65.
Doombreed
Doombreed is a mighty Daemon Prince of the Blood God Khorne, responsible for leading a Black Crusade against the Imperium.
Foulspawn
Foulspawn was one of the most diseased and disgusting of all Nurgle's Champions. Nurgle was deeply fond of his unsightly Champion, and eventually blessed him with the reward of Spawndom. By some strange quirk of fate (or equally strange whim of Nurgle) Foulspawn was able to survive by ingesting and absorbing the fleshy tissues and bodily fluids of living creatures, which he achieves by grabbing his victim with his sticky, toad-like tongue, and then swallowing the still living creature whole.3
Ghargauloth
Ghargauloth is one of the most powerful Daemons of the Changer of Ways Tzeentch. He was present at the conclave on Thalassocres where Tzeentch spoke to his greatest daemons. Gargauloth is a daemon created from information. He is able to manifest himself through this media. His worshipers have been known to corrupt data machines for his cause. He has been banished twice by the Grey Knights, but continues to affect his plans from the warp. His true name is recorded in the Codicium Aeternum. Ghargauloth is said to have created the Trail of Saint Evisser and use the body of Kelkannis Evisser in order to bring about his re manifestation.18
Heart of Blood
The Heart of Blood is one of the most favoured Daemon avatars of the Blood God Khorne, and piled legions of skulls for its master. It has the power to summon bloodstorms, which drains blood from its victims without the need to strike a physical blow. It forged for itself a suit of armour which contained all of its hate, malice and cunning. Its greatest rival is the Omphalos Daemonium, which it trapped within the heart of a Daemon Engine. However, the Heart of Blood too became imprisoned by the Iron Warriors, and was forced to create and sustain an unbreakable psychic barrier around the fortress of Khalan-Ghol for over ten thousand years. 12
Ka'Bandha
Ka'Bandha was the Bloodthirster responsible for breaking Sanguinius' legs during the battle for Signus Prime. It may also have been responsible for the Black Rage afflicting the Blood Angels and their Successor Chapters to this day.8
The Daemon would return to plague the Blood Angels again during the Battle of Terra, where it yet again challenged the Angel Primarch to battle. Attacking the Primarch when his back was turned, the daemon quickly cast Sanguinius to the ground. But, unlike Signus Prime, this time Sanguinius rose to his feet once again, and calling upon the last of his strength, hefted the Daemon by the neck, raised it above his head, and with a last display of might, broke Ka'Bandha's back over his knee, before hurling the Greater Daemon back into the heretic army and finally retreating back to the safety beyond the walls of the Eternity Gate.8
M'Kachan
M'Kachan is a Daemon Prince of Tzeentch that most commonly appears in the form of a particularly powerful Lord of Change.
N'Kari
N'Kari is a Daemon Prince of Slaanesh. He was born on an isolated, backwater world which has been trapped in the centre of a violent warp storm for millennia, incidentally on the same backwater world as the Daemon Prince Bubonicus. The Chaos Powers have repeatedly attempted to conquer this planet, but have so far been foiled by the uncorrupted peoples of the world. N'Kari rose to prominence during one of the Chaos Powers' many attempts to conquer the planet. He proved himself a dedicated follower of Slaanesh in countless battles - and the debauched and disgusting revelries that followed them - and was rewarded by Slaanesh with the gift of Daemonhood. Along with Doombreed he was one of the two Daemon Princes that fought against the Emperor when he boarded Horus's battle barge, and he continues to serve his daemonic master to this day.3
Omphalos Daemonium
The Omphalos Daemonium was an ancient and powerful Daemon Prince, a servant of the Blood God Khorne, and existed only for slaughter. It was defeated by a rival daemon, the Heart of Blood, and trapped in torment within a Daemon Engine; bound to the service of the Iron Warriors, it served as the dread chariot to a vast Iron Warrior known as the Slaughterman. After the war of Hydra Cordatus, the Slaughterman was defeated by Imperial forces and driven into the furnace of the daemon engine, setting the Omphalos Daemonium free. The daemon then possessed the body of the Slaughterman, and planned its revenge on the Heart of Blood, which itself was imprisoned by the Iron Warriors on their homeworld of Medrengard.
The daemon captured two exiled Ultramarines, Uriel Ventris and his former Sergeant, Pasanius, and charged them with the task of retrieving the Heart of Blood. Upon the Heart of Blood being set free by the Ultramarines, the Omphalos Daemonium arrived to take advantage of its rival's weakened state from its imprisonment. However, in the climax of the battle, the Heart of Blood conjured up a bloodstorm which strengthened its abilities to their former glory. Upon restoration of its powers, the Heart of Blood was the more powerful of the two daemons and ultimately defeated its enemy once again. The Omphalos Daemonium was beheaded and its essence was drank by its mortal enemy.12
Periclitor
Periclitor was a Space Marine of the Night Lords Legion3 who began his long quest to Daemonhood in 832.M33 with the Castile V massacre. Among his later triumphs were the martyrdom of Saint Jerome (called Jerome the Pure by the Imperium, and Jerome the Fool or Jerome the Blind by Periclitor's forces), the last stand of the Terran 5th Armored Prefects, battle against the Grey Knights in the Sentry Vault, the ambush and slaughter of the Howling Griffons' Chapter Master and First Company on the eve of the 5000th anniversary of their founding, and the murder of the Cardinal of Bray. The last incident touched off a series of attacks by Periclitor's forces that eventually caused the entire Trans-Kurani subsector to erupt in civil war over the issue of taxation for defence of the subsector.
Once the Braun IV Tithe Wars - as this conflict was known - was touched off, Periclitor was elevated to Daemonhood in 187.M39.1
Zarakynel
Variously referred to as the Bringer of Torments, The Souleater (by the Eldar), the Unholy One and the Angel of Despair. Zarakynel is a Slaaneshi Keeper of Secrets and led the attack against the governors palace during the Sherilax Incursion.
Other Chaos Characters
Urlock Gaur
Urlock Gaur is Archon of Archenemy Forces in the Sabbat Worlds, M41.771 - present.13
Nadzybar
Nadzybar was Archon of the Archenemy forces in the Sabbat Worlds from beginning around 634.M41, and may have been the warlord to first rally the Ruinous Powers in the taking of the region in the first centuries of M41.13
Sources
- 1:Codex: Chaos Space Marines (3rd Edition, 2nd Codex)
- 2:Codex: Chaos Space Marines (3rd Edition, 1st Codex)
- 3:Codex: Chaos (2nd Edition)
- 4:Codex Imperialis
- 5:Lord of the Night
- 6:Zarakynel on the Forgeworld website and Zarakynel's experimental rules on Forgeworld (PDF 75kB)]
- 7:Liber Chaotica
- 8:Horus Heresy: Collected Visions
- 9:Dawn of War
- 10:Dawn of War: Dark Crusade
- 11:Ships of the Gothic Sector
- 12:Dead Sky, Black Sun (Novel)
- 13:The Sabbat Worlds Crusade
- 14:Realm of Chaos: The Lost and the Damned
- 15:White Dwarf 156
- 16:Dawn of War: Soulstorm
- 17 Chapter War (Novel) by Ben Counter
- 18 Grey Knights (Novel) by Ben Counter
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