Daemon World

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This article is about the Daemon planet; for the novel by Ben Counter, see Daemon World (Novel).

A Daemon World ruled by the Word Bearers

A daemon world (or daemon-world^[4]) is a planet twisted and corrupted by the power of Chaos and the warp from being trapped in a prolonged warp rift. Entwining the impossibilities of the warp and the reality of the physical realm, Daemon Worlds are not bound by the laws of physics, but by the whim of daemonic rulers and the emotions of mortals.^[1]

Overview

Daemon Worlds are usually ruled by a Daemon Prince, who can shape the world to his liking. Each of these worlds is a bizarre sub-reality ruled by terrible Daemon Princes. The four Chaos Gods continuously compete to possess the Daemon Worlds. Armies of daemons and their living allies fight huge and bloody battles to determine which of the Chaos Powers will possess them. These battles often last for hundreds of years, so that the entire world becomes little more than a gigantic arena where the opposing forces are pitched against each other. The Chaos Powers do not, of course, appear in person to lead their armies - they are spectators to events, not participants. Their generals are Greater Daemons and favoured Daemon Princes who, because they were once alive, understand the nature of both the material universe and the immaterial Realm of Chaos. Once a Daemon Prince has conquered a world, his grateful patron gives it to him as a gift to rule over as he wishes.^{[Needs Citation]}

When a Daemon Prince takes control of his hard-won world, he uses his mighty powers to reshape it to a form that pleases him. Because of this, every world is different and all are equally spectacular in their own way.^{[Needs Citation]}

The most powerful psykers have reported dreams or visions in which worlds of the Eye of Terror have been revealed to them. On one world a black sun stands in a white sky and smoky threads pour from it onto a tangled black city - this is said to be Medrengard, the world of the Daemon Prince Perturabo, formerly the Primarch of the Iron Warriors Space Marine Legion. Another world has boiling lakes of blood from which spheres of fire float into the sky and spread their light across the firmament - the ruler of this world is the Daemon Prince Bubonicus, formerly a mortal Champion of Nurgle on one of the myriad lost worlds in the galaxy. Visions of such places disturb the psychically sensitive throughout the entire galaxy.^{[Needs Citation]}

The majority of known Daemon Worlds in the Galaxy are found within the Eye of Terror; those few within the borders of the Imperium are rigorously guarded by the Inquisition, since, unfortunately, because of the reality-shifting effects of the Warp, it is all but impossible to subject them to Exterminatus^[3].

Notable Daemon Worlds

Planet name	Segmentum	Sector	Subsector	System	Population
Absolom Reach	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Adraith	Segmentum Obscurus	Eye of Terror	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Aktosha	Segmentum Obscurus	Eye of Terror	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Almarit	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Anathrax	Segmentum Obscurus	Eye of Terror	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Bathamor	Ultima Segmentum	Maelstrom	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Bubonicus	Segmentum Obscurus	Eye of Terror	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Callax[5]	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Drakaasi	Segmentum Obscurus	Eye of Terror	Unknown	Unknown	High Millions
Eidolon	Segmentum Obscurus	Eye of Terror	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Fool's Paradise	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Fyre	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Ghalmek	Ultima Segmentum	The Maelstrom	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Harmony	Segmentum Obscurus	Eye of Terror	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Kathalon	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Medrengard	Segmentum Obscurus	Eye of Terror	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
M'Laar XIII	Unknown	Ganglax Sector	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Oliensis	Segmentum Obscurus	Eye of Terror	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Plague Planet	Segmentum Obscurus	Eye of Terror	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Planet of the Sorcerers	Segmentum Obscurus	Eye of Terror	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Sebaket	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Sicarus	Segmentum Obscurus	Eye of Terror	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Temporia	Segmentum Obscurus	Eye of Terror	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Torvendis	Ultima Segmentum	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Millions
Uolesh	Segmentum Obscurus	Eye of Terror	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Urskas Sol Tetra	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
World of Immortal Sorrows	Segmentum Obscurus	Eye of Terror	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Xana II[2]	Segmentum Obscurus	Eye of Terror	Unknown	Unknown	Millions
Hell's Teeth	Ultima Segmentum	Maelstrom	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown

See Also

• Hell Forge
• Fallen Knight World

Sources

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• 1: Codex: Chaos Daemons (4th Edition), pg. 18
• 2: Imperial Armour Volume Six - The Siege of Vraks - Part Two, pg. 163
• 3: The Traitor's Hand (Novel) — Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium (Omnibus), Chapter Eight, pg. 595, fn. 1
• 4: Honour Among Fiends (Short Story)
• 5: Fabius Bile: Manflayer (Novel) - Prologue

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• Realm of Chaos, Slaves to Darkness 1988, and The Lost and the Damned 1990