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Flawless Blade[2]

The Flawless Blades are Champions of the Emperor's Children Traitor Legion, who are dark mirrors to their elite Palatine Blades that fought in the Great Crusade.[1]

Description

Seeing themselves as the greatest fighters of their warband, Flawless Blades may derive anywhere from from common warriors to Chaos Lords but have since been consumed by their obsession towards swordsmanship. They gather in elitist groups, setting themselves apart from their fellow warriors and instead fighting to prove their superiority in front of each other. Their arrogance and elitism leads them to usually be despised by the rest of their warband. Flawless Blades take this proudly, seeing this resentment as a form of jealousy. Groups of Flawless Blades will seek duels across alien worlds, gladiatorial arenas, battlefields, or even the Warp itself.[2]

Each Flawless Blade carries personalized masterwork weapons, honed to lethal perfection over countless battles. Referred to as Blissblades, they perceive themselves as paragons of perfection. Flawless Blades deride the concept of the economical killing strike and the merciful execution, instead preferring to tear their foes apart in gory splendor or even leaving their foes to die in agony. All that matters to them is the excess of the display and acknowledgement of their own superiority. They seek not to just show off their abilities to their own allies, but also to the Daemons of the Warp and Slaanesh itself. The patronage of Daemons is keenly sought after by Flawless Blades, as is wresting that favour from another of their own kind.[2]

Excessively sadistic and psychotic even by the standards of the Emperor's Children, Flawless Blades are known to parade their contempt for their enemies and deliberately expose themselves to danger in battle as a form of mockery. So assured are they that no foe could threaten them, Flawless Blades wear exotic and unique armour that leaves portions of their bodies unprotected. Despite their arrogance and manias however, they are nonetheless horrifically powerful fighters.[2]

Besides their abilities in swordsmanship, the skills of Flawless Blades are further enhanced by combat stimms of a vast multitude of origin. The power of the Warp flows through them as well, causing their flesh to swell and contort and their bones to mutate into a form more similar of Daemons. Most Flawless Blades augment their gifts of Slaanesh with hideous surgeries and bio-grafts. Some may have reshaped their limbs or exposed their musculature, while others may have altered their pores to emit sickening hormonal essences or chameleonic patterns. Those with sufficent Warp patronage may display more exotic abilities, such as ethereal mantles that shield them from inferior enemies or those that attempt to strike from a distance. Empyric omens may also flicker through their minds, luring them to new sites of depravity or teasing them with the locations of prime enemies.[2]

This Daemonic patronage has its consequences, however. The desperation of Flawless Blades to attain such favour mirrors their insatiable compulsion not to lose it. Should a Flawless Blade displease their Daemonic audiences with cowardice, failure, or lackluster performances or passion, they run the risk of being punished. This may take the form of the Flawless Blade himself being overcome by agony, the tearing out of their soul, a slow plucking apart of their identity over many long years, or instant consumption by a swirl of immaterial fangs and claws. The unworthy warrior will then provide their former patrons with all the pleasure they denied them in life.[2]

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