Infractor

Chaos Portal Emperor's Children

Infractors^[1]

Infractors are a type of rank-and-file soldier found within the warbands of the Emperor's Children.^[2a]

Description

Unlike their ranged-preferring Tormentor cousins, Infractors focus on close-quarters combat. Infractors are drug-fueled killers that seek only to gain sensation by engaging in bloody, extreme, and sensationally wanton battle with the enemy. Unless given sufficient incentive to do otherwise, Infractors will simply kill, move on, and kill again and ignore most other objectives. Swift and arrogant, they view enemy positions as a personal affront and will instead push deep into hostile territory to kill for its own sake.^[2a]

Rarely fighting as part of a cohesive combined arms force, Infractors expect others within their warband to keep up with them and are known to violently oppose attempts to restrain their swift advances. Always looking for the next challenge, unlike Flawless Blades they are not particular about who they inflict violence upon. However they still possess a monstrous ego, and view the battlefield as their own domain set up by Slaanesh to allow them to slice apart their foes.^[2a]

In battle, Infractors most commonly wield Duelling Sabres and Bolt Pistols. They view their weapons as tools with which to paint their bloody performances upon the galactic canvas, though any aesthetic sensibilities they once had have since been replaced by psychotic violence. Squads of Infractors compete with one another to carve the most visceral trail of destruction across the battlefield. If they are not consumed by jealousy, other Emperor's Children who encounter these rampages may be inspired by the tableaus.^[2a]

Infractors reap sensation from the body fluids, pain, and cries of agony from their enemies. They sometimes will spare those they encounter, though this is only to enrich themselves with their victim's cries of pain and vengeance. At other times these suffers may only be left due to pure indifference and apathy.^[2a]

Squad leaders of Infractors are known as Obsessionists, and are armed with a Power Sword or Rapture Lash as well as a Plasma Pistol.^[2b]

Sources

• 1: Warhammer Community: LVO Preview 2025 – Establish exactly how much is too much with the Emperor’s Children (Saved archive page, dated 16 January 2025, last accessed 16 January 2025, original link: https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/evne31tw/lvo-preview-2025-establish-exactly-how-much-is-too-much-with-the-emperors-children/)
• 2: Codex: Emperor's Children (10th Edition)
  • 2a: pg. 31
  • 2b: pg. 89