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.
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 sudden 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
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
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. At first allied with Warlord Gorgutz 'Ead 'Unter, his head is taken by the Ork Warlord and put on his pointy stick.
Eliphas The Inheritor
Eliphas The Inheritor was a Dark Apostle who lead a Word Bearers force on Kronus.
Firraveus Carron
Firraveus Carron was a Khornate champion from the Alpha Legion who led his forces into the Kaurava system in Dawn of War: Soulstorm. A warp storm had taken hold on the outer edge of the Kaurava system, and speculation began as to whether the storm brought the Alpha Legion to Kaurava, or if the Alpha Legion brought the storm. His conquest of the system became from the Peninsula of Iseult on Kaurava IV, the planet closest to the warp storm.16
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.12
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
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. He was Lord Bale's advisor during Alpha Legion's search for the Maledictum, and by his careful scheming the Orks of the planet were used to buy time for the Chaos forces to complete their search. During the search he tainted the Blood Ravens Librarian Isador Akios with taunts of how he might use the Maledictum for his own victory against Chaos. Eventually, Isador succumbed to the lure of Chaos and was executed by his old friend and Blood Ravens' Captain Gabriel Angelos. Later, when the sacrificing of more lives and time was necessary, Sindri tricked Lord Bale into combat with Angelos, who slew Bale. Sindri escaped the confrontation, and eventually made himself a Daemon Prince with the power of the Maledictum. He was soon defeated, however, by the Blood Ravens.9
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 (Bubonicus) was a mortal Champion of Nurgle, born on a world isolated from the Imperium. He now rules the Daemon World of Bubonicus 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 the 5th Black Crusade against the Imperium.
His origins are a matter of contradiction. It is stated Doombreed was one of the first of Khorne's servants. Doombreed's true name has long been forgotten, but he was once human, a mighty warlord who led armies which ravaged entire nations on Earth long, long ago, responsible for genocide and murder on a grand scale. Such wanton carnage drew the eye of the god Khorne, still relatively young, who granted the warlord the ultimate reward of Daemonhood.3
Other sources state that Doombreed was once a noble member of the Astartes, who declared complete war on the Imperium 723.M36 during the Crusade and was made a Daemon Prince. During this Crusade two loyal Space Marine chapters, the Warhawks and the Venerators were completely wiped out.7
It is believed that Doombreed fought alongside Horus during the Heresy, and was present on Horus' Battle Barge when he confronted the Emperor and was slain. If this is true, then it would give credence to the former theory of Doombreed's creation, although as with many servants of Chaos, the truth may never now be known.
Foulspawn
Foulspawn was one of the most diseased and disgusting of all Nurgle's Champions. It was said that the sight of him was so horrifying that hardened warriors who saw him were rendered incapable of any action while they gagged and wretched in disgust. Nurgle was deeply fond of his unsightly Champion, and eventually blessed him with the reward of Spawndom. Many Chaos Spawn die within minutes or hours of their transformation, being killed by their former followers, slain in battle or expiring as their impossibly mutated bodies give out under the strain. Such was not the fate of Foulspwan, however. He not only survived, he grew and prospered. 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
Ka'Bandha
Ka'Bandha was the Greater Daemon of Khorne 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'Banha'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'Kachen
M'Kachen is a Daemon Prince of Tzeentch that most commonly appears in the form of a particularly powerful Lord of Change. M'Kachen is amongst the most cunning and devious of all Tzeentch's servants. Although most Greater Daemons have broadly similar powers, they are by no means identical. M'Kachen, for example, disdains physical combat and relies on his formidable psychic powers and mastery of illusion and trickery to defeat his foes to an extent unparalleled by any other Lord of Change. He particularly relishes matching his intellect and cunning against those of a worthy foe, and has even been known to spare such opponents in order to allow himself the pleasure of matching wits against them at some time in the future.3
M'Kachen's greatest individual foe is Grey Knights Brother-Captain Stern, a renowned Daemonhunter who first encountered (and defeated) the Daemon when he purged the Cult of the Red Talon. Since that first encounter, M'Kachen has devoted himself to finding Stern whenever he returns to the mortal plane, and devour his soul. They have met several times since then and each time, Stern has been victorious. But the machinations of Tzeentch are ever-changing, and there may come a time when Stern's luck runs out...
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" is a daemon that plagues the warp in a scarlet train fuelled by the screams and pain of the tormented it holds in its carriages. The Omphalos Daemonium itself is just a spirit. It had Possesed the body of a vast Iron Warrior called the Slaughterman, and it appears fully daemonic in nature. It is known to have once captured two disgraced Ultramarines, Uriel Ventris and his former Sergeant, Pasanius. It took the two to the world of Medrengard, homeworld of the traitor Iron Warriors, in order to steal an object it called the Heart of Blood.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 marytrdom 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 taxationfor defense 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: Space Marines (3rd Edition, 2nd Codex)
- 2:Codex: 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
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