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The Star of Chaos

This is a pictorial list of official Traitor Legion and Renegade Space Marine warbands of Chaos Space Marines (A-L) created by Games Workshop. It does not include any fan-created Renegade Chapters.

This is not a complete list as not every Renegade Chapter in existence is known due to the Imperial policy of revising or altering history to protect truths considered dangerous to the continued stability of the Emperor's realm or the issuance by the High Lords of Terra of an Edict of Obliteration concerning a particular individual or subject.

Such an edict often obfuscates or destroys historical accounts related to the actions of Chaos all together.

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Abrial's Claw Abrial's Claw is a warband of Heretic Astartes that took part in the Scouring of Makenna VII. It was once led by the Chaos Lord Abrial Shard, who relinquished control of the warband to the exiled Iron Warriors Warsmith Balduran during that campaign. Since that time, the warband has become infamous across many sectors of the Imperium.
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Adharon's Reavers Adharon's Reavers are a vicious warband of Chaos Space Marines who were once largely members of the Sons of Guilliman Chapter of Space Marines. This warband operates as a small renegade corsair group under the former Sons of Guilliman Captain Adharon. This particular Chaos Space Marines warband was first identified by the forces of the Imperium of Man during the Siege of Vraks in 813.M41.
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Alpha Legion The Alpha Legion is the Chaos Space Marine Traitor Legion about whom the least is known. The Alpha Legion was once the XXth Legion of Astartes created during the First Founding by the Emperor of Mankind to carry out his Great Crusade to reunite all of humanity in a new Golden Age under his rule. They are experts in infiltration and their armies contain many Chaos Cultists in addition to regular Chaos Space Marines.
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Altar Brethren See entry for Iconoclasts.
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Angels Apocrypha The Angels Apocrypha were a warband of Chaos Space Marines of unknown origin or Founding. Little else is known about this particular warband in official Imperial records. Recently, they took part in the Cholercaust Blood Crusade in the 41st Millennium. The Cholercauset suffered a total defeat and all in its ranks were slain, including the Angels Apocrypha, by the mysterious Legion of the Damned.
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Angels of Ecstasy The Angels of Ecstasy are a Renegade Chapter of Chaos Space Marines devoted to the Chaos God Slaanesh who were once the Loyalist Space Marine Chapter called the Sons of Ulthunas. They rebelled against the Imperium of Man during the action remembered as the Ganymethian Betrayal.
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Angels of Flame The Angels of Flame were a formerly Loyalist Space Marine Chapter of unknown origin or Founding. This Chapter only recently turned Renegade in 999.M41, when they were sent on an extended mission of reconquest to the rim of the galaxy near the Ghoul Stars. What occurred during their sojourn there is not recorded.
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Angels of Pain The Angels of Pain are a Chaos Space Marine warband of unknown origin and Founding. Nothing is known about this warband except for their raid and destruction of the colony station of Trantarion in the Acteron Sector.
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Angron's Chosen Angron's Chosen are a Chaos Warband of Khornate Berserkers drawn from the World Eaters Traitor Legion that slaughter their way across the width and breadth of the galaxy to acquire skulls for the Blood God Khorne.
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Angron's Fury Angron's Fury is a warband of Chaos Space Marines that splintered from the World Eaters Traitor Legion. Little is known about this Khornate warband other than that they have many Possessed amongst their ranks, whose spines and claws often manifest as living steel.
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Anointed The Anointed were a warband of the World Eaters Traitor Legion. It was wiped out during the Cholercaust Blood Crusade in the 41st Millennium.
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Apocalypse Company The Apocalypse Company is a Warband of Chaos Space Marines. Their allegiance to a particular Chaos God is unknown, but it is presumed that they worship Chaos in its Undivided form.
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Apostles of Contagion The Apostles of Contagion are a warband of Chaos Space Marines originally drawn from the Death Guard Traitor Legion that dedicate themselves to the service of the Plague Lord Nurgle. They are led by the vile and infamous Chaos Lord Necrosius, the self-proclaimed "Hand of Nurgle."
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Apostles of MinthRas The Apostles of MinthRas are a Warband of Chaos Space Marines. They were first encountered by the forces of the Imperium of Man inside the Eye of Terror Warp rift in the 33rd Millennium. Almost nothing else is recorded about them in Imperial records.
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Argent Hammers See entry for Talons of Anathrax.
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Astral Blades The Astral Blades were once a Loyalist Chapter of Space Marines of unknown origin and Founding. In 121.M37, the Astral Blades Chapter was led down the path to Chaos by their prideful Chapter Master, who had been possessed by the Daemon Etherak the Unrepentant. However, when they attempted to flee, the Grey Knights were waiting for them. Broken in body and spirit, the Chapter Master of the Astral Blades accepted the Emperor's mercy delivered at the hands of his "saviours".
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Astral Claws The Astral Claws were once a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter created during the mid-M35's 10th Founding from an unknown genetic origin specifically to defend the Eastern Fringes of the Imperium of Man from any Chaos threats spawned by the massive Warp rift called the Maelstrom. The Astral Claws eventually turned Renegade against the Imperium and initiated the major rebellion and attempt at secession from the Imperium by the Badab Sector appropriately called the Badab War in late M41. See entry for Red Corsairs.
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Athkor's Destroyers Athkor's Destroyers is a warband of the Black Legion led by the Master of Possession Bruakh Athkor.
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Avenging Sons (3rd Company) During the Helmabad Rebellion sometime in M41, Avenging Sons' Captain Gessart and his 3rd Company turned Renegade whilst fighting in the civil war on Helmabad against a force of Chaos Cultists, who had stirred up a rebellion against the Emperor, to save their own lives when the course of the battle went against them. Killing their Chaplain and those Loyalist Battle-Brothers who would not follow them, the Space Marines of the 3rd Company negotiated with the Traitors for safe passage to their Thunderhawk gunship in return for leaving the Planetary Governor undefended for the cultists to slay.

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Baleful Eye The Baleful Eye is a Chaos Space Marine warband that has risen to prominence within the Screaming Vortex within the Calixis Sector. These piratical raiders are known for ambushing their prey and preferring rapid and brutal boarding actions. Their ships are adorned with cruel spikes and trophies of past conquests, while the red and midnight blue hull prominently displays images of a great glaring yellow eye.
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Beasts of Annihilation The Beasts of Annihilation were once a Loyalist Chapter of Space Marines known as the Annhilators. After the unremitting violence of the xenocidal Quietus Campaign, the Annhilators Chapter finally succumbed to blood psychosis. Every member of the Chapter was possessed over the course of a single moonlit night, shifting forms and devolving into armoured half-Daemon monstrosities.
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Berserkers of Kharadon The Berserkers of Kharadon were once a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter which disappeared from the Imperium of Man from 153.M34 to 184.M39. During these five millennia the Berserkers of Kharadon turned to Chaos, and the bloody worship of Khorne, rechristening themselves the Skulltakers.
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Berserkers of Skallathrax The Berserkers of Skallathrax are a warband of Chaos Space Marines drawn from the World Eaters Traitor Legion. There have been multiple encounters throughout the Segmentum Obscurus between the forces of the Imperium of Man and this vicious warband of Chaos Space Marines dedicated to the Blood God Khorne.
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Betrayers of Pain The Betrayers of Pain are a warband of Chaos Space Marines of unknown origin. Almost nothing is known about them in current Imperial records.
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Bilious Ones The Bilious Ones are a warband or vectorium of the Death Guard Traitor Legion's 4th Plague Company. They are commanded by a Death Guard Sorcerer and are one of the few Death Guard warbands which likes to enter battle amidst living carpets of Nurglings, the Lesser Daemons of the Plague God Nurgle. Little else is known about the Bilious Ones in current Imperial records.
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Bitter Sons The Bitter Sons was a warband of the Iron Warriors Traitor Legion. The Chaos Space Marines of the Bitter Sons were deployed to the Macragge System as part of the Ultramar Campaign of Abaddon the Despoiler's 13th Black Crusade in 999.M41.
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Black Brethren of Ayreas The Black Brethren of Ayreas are a warband of Chaos Space Marines drawn from the Black Legion who follow the Chaos Champion Ayreas. They were among the Forces of Chaos and the 11 warbands and Renegade Chapters of Chaos Space Marines who participated in the the infamous Siege of Vraks (813-830.M41).
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Black Feast The Black Feast is a warband of Chaos Space Marines that splintered from the World Eaters Traitor Legion. The Black Feast are a cannibalistic sub-sect of the World Eaters who devour the bodies of the fallen after battle as a final mark of disrespect for their weakness.
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Black Legion The Black Legion is a a Traitor Legion of Chaos Space Marines that is the first in infamy, if not in treachery, whose name resounds as a curse throughout the scattered and war-torn realms of humanity. The Black Legion was once one of the 9 First Founding Legions of Space Marines who turned Traitor to the Imperium during the Horus Heresy in the early 31st Millennium.
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The Black Psalm The Black Psalm are a warband of Chaos Space Marines. They were once a Loyalist Chapter of Space Marines of unknown origin and Founding, known as the Illustrians. They were corrupted after entering the Eye of Terror in 321.M37 as part of the disastrous Abyssal Crusade. It is unknown what they endured during their sojourn into the Eye, but by the time they made their way back into realspace, they had become the warband of Chaos Space Marines known as The Black Psalm.
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Black Skull The Black Skull is a Renegade Warband of Chaos Space Marines of unknown origins and Founding. When the Crimson Sabres Chapter began their descent into madness, they were determined to sell themselves dearly, and so, they turned to the Eye of Terror where they planned to die fighting the enemies of Mankind and so reclaim their honour. The planet known as Nebulon was one of the outermost of the planets ringing the Eye of Terror, a world only occasionally veiled within that region. Onto that bleak orb swept the Crimson Sabres like avenging angels. The two forces clashed, and the Crimson Sabres were able to overcome the renegade warband.
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Blades Eternal The Blades Eternal were once a Loyalist Chapter of Space Marines of unknown origin and Founding. They were lost after entering the Eye of Terror in 321.M37 as part of the disastrous Abyssal Crusade. It is unknown what they endured during their sojourn into the Eye, and their current status is also unknown, though the Imperial Inquisition has withheld their final judgement on whether or not the Chapter should be considered heretical or extinct until more information is available.
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Blades of Magnus The Blades of Magnus are a thrallband of Chaos Space Marines dedicated to the Chaos God Tzeentch that was originally formed by members of the Thousand Sons Traitor Legion. After escaping the destruction of their home world of Prospero, the Blades of Magnus began to work in secret to break the bonds between their Primarch and the Chaos God Tzeentch. They were eventually discovered by the Daemon Primarch, who punished the Blades of Magnus were reduced to soulless automatons -- mere vessels for the Crimson King to control -- like puppets by a mad marionette.
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Blades of Rage The Blades of Rage are a little known host of Khorne Daemonkin of unknown origin. Their most notable actions occurred in 444.M41, when they joined their fellow Daemonkin host, The Wrath, joining the Daemon Primarch Angron's attack upon the Imperial Hive World of Armageddon.
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Blades of the Despoiler The Blades of the Despoiler were a warband of the Black Legion dedicated to the service of Khorne. They were eradicated by the Battle-Sisters of the Order of the Ebon Chalice at some point during the Era Indomitus even as their path of slaughter took them on a course headed directly for Holy Terra.
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Bleak Brotherhood The Bleak Brotherhood is a warband of Chaos Space Marines whose origins remain unknown although they may possibly be a splinter warband of the Warp Ghosts. The Chaos God to whom they offer their allegiance, if any, is unknown.
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Bleeding Eye The Bleeding Eye is a particularly large Raptor Cult that often act as mercenaries. They are known to operate in cells across several sectors of the galaxy, allying themselves with other Chaos Space Marine warbands. The Bleeding Eye is known for taking part in various acts of cannibalism, eating the remains of their fallen enemies.
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The Blighted Claw The Blighted Claw are a warband of Chaos Space Marines. They were once a Loyalist Chapter of Space Marines of unknown origin and Founding, known as the Sanctors of Terra. They were corrupted after entering the Eye of Terror in 321.M37 as part of the disastrous Abyssal Crusade. It is unknown what they endured during their sojourn into the Eye, but by the time they made their way back into realspace, they had become the warband of Chaos Space Marines known as The Blighted Claw.
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Blood Disciples The Blood Disciples are a warband of Chaos Space Marines who were once the 8th Company of the Emperor's Wolves Chapter of Loyalist Space Marines. During a mission, the 8th Company made a Warp Jump that proved unsuccessful, causing them to become lost in the Immaterium for decades. During this time the 8th Company was corrupted by Chaos and emerged back into realspace decades later as the vicious warband of Chaos Space Marines known as the Blood Disciples.
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Blood Gorgons The Blood Gorgons are a Renegade Chapter of Chaos Space Marines that primarily raids the Baston Sector of Imperial space. They were created during the 21st Founding, known as the "Cursed Founding," sometime in M36, shortly before the start of the Age of Apostasy. Led by their Chapter Master and later Chaos Lord Gammadin, who had been the Blood Gorgons' leader from the time of their Founding until the day when the Imperium declared them Renegade and Excommunicate Traitoris, a mere six decades later, the Chapter ultimately fled into the Eye of Terror.
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Blood Legion of Khorne The Blood Legion of Khorne were a Chaos Warband of World Eaters Chaos Space Marines. They assaulted the world of Lorn V and struck a deal with a local Ork Warboss, Gorgutz. The Warband eventually came into conflict with the Orks over the remains of an Imperator-class Titan.
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Blood Storm The Blood Storm was a warband of Chaos Space Marines of unknown origin or Founding. Little else is known about this particular warband in official Imperial records. Recently, they took part in the Cholercaust Blood Crusade in the 41st Millennium.
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Blood Wolves The Blood Wolves are a traitorous Great Company of the Space Wolves Chapter. Folling their leader, the Renegade Wolf Lord Svane Vulfbad, they have turned to worship of the blood god Khorne.
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Bloodblessed The Bloodblessed are a Khorne Daemonkin host that makes great use of Chaos Spawn. These fanatics round up great hordes of the mutated beasts, believing them to be the true form that Khorne desires for mortal man. Not only do the Bloodblessed accord Chaos Spawn the status of holy warriors but, stranger still, their own Champions aspire not to ascension but to Spawndom. Thus what is seen by most as a dire punishment for failure has become, to the Bloodblessed, the ultimate reward.
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Bloodborn The Bloodborn were comprised of a large following of multiple Chaos Warbands and rogue regiments comprised of both Planetary Defence Forces and Imperial Guardsmen and was jointly led by the Iron Warriors Warsmith Honsou and the Daemon Prince M'kar the Reborn. The rest of the Bloodborn's elite forces were comprised of Chaos Space Marine warbands which included the Skulltakers, the Apostles of MinthRas, the Claws of Lorek, and the Death Shadows. In 999.M41, the Bloodborn invaded the Ultramarines' Realm of Ultramar.
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The Bloodgorged The Bloodgorged are an infamous Khornate warband of Khorne Daemonkin that prey upon the followers of the other Chaos Gods. Their ships haunt the Eye of Terror, the Maelstrom and many other hunting grounds where renegades can be found.
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Bloodlords The Bloodlords are a warband of Chaos Space Marines. They were once a Loyalist Chapter of Space Marines of unknown origin and Founding, known as the Spears of Olympus. They were corrupted after entering the Eye of Terror in 321.M37 as part of the disastrous Abyssal Crusade. It is unknown what they endured during their sojourn into the Eye, but by the time they made their way back into realspace, they had become the warband of Chaos Space Marines known as the Bloodlords.
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Bloody Crescent The Bloody Crescent are a notorious Warband of Chaos Space Marines. In 357.M41, they battled the Space Wolves Great Company under Wolf Lord Asvald Stormwrack. During the battle, a young Logan Grimnar saved Asvald's life from one of the warband's Helbrutes.
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Bloody Path The Bloody Path is a warband of Chaos Space Marines that splintered from the World Eaters Traitor Legion. Most recently, during the 13th Black Crusade, this warband fought alongside the monstrous Butcherhorde, a conglomeration of multiple World Eaters warbands led by the infamous Khârn the Betrayer, who led them in the slaughter of the Imperial world of Amethal in the Diamor System against the valiant defence of the Blood Angels Space Marine Chapter.
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Brazen Beasts The Brazen Beasts are an infamous Khornate warband of Khorne Daemonkin that prey upon the followers of the other Chaos Gods. They are known for utilising heavily armoured Daemon Engines to lead their berserker assaults, leaving behind nothing but mangled corpses and blazing devastation.
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Brazen Drakes The Brazen Drakes are now a Renegade warband of Chaos Space Marines called The Shriven that joined the Black Legion. Their genetic origin and Founding is unknown. They are the first known Chapter whose Primaris Space Marine reinforcements also turned against the Imperium and went Renegade.
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Brazen Guard The Brazen Guard were a warband of Chaos Space Marines of unknown origin or Founding. Little else is known about this particular warband in official Imperial records. Recently, they took part in the Cholercaust Blood Crusade in the 41st Millennium. The Cholercauset suffered a total defeat and all in its ranks were slain, including the Brazen Guard, by the mysterious Legion of the Damned.
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Bringers of Decay The Bringers of Decay are a special formation of Chaos Space Marines found within the Black Legion who are wholly dedicated to the service of the Chaos God Nurgle. The Plague God has a strong following within the Black Legion; his putrid touch is evident throughout the ranks of its warriors. Under the dominance of the Chosen of Abaddon lieutenant Skyrak Slaughterborn, the current Lord Corruptor, the Nurglites have converted many to their cause.
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Bronze Gorgons See entry for Crystal Wyverns.
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Brotherhood of Blood The Brotherhood of Blood are a known Chaos Space Marine Warband of unknown origins. They are known for having continuously battled warbands of the Black Legion, Death Guard, Iron Warriors, Night Lords and the Sons of Hate, each of which have laid individual claims, for control of the strategically vital Fortress World of Brgannion Four, known as the Planet of Steel, which lies near the Cadian Gate just outside the Eye of Terror.
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Brotherhood of Darkness The Brotherhood of Darkness are a warband of Chaos Space Marines of unknown origin and allegiance, though they may be related to the Night Lords Traitor Legion, due to their similar iconography.
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Brotherhood of Dust The Brotherhood of Dust was a powerful Chaos Space Marine Warband that consisted primarily of powerful exiled Thousand Sons Chaos Sorcerers founded by Amon, the former Captain of the 9th Fellowship, and Equerry of Primarch Magnus the Red. It was Amon's intent to see the suffering of his Legion ended by undoing the fell magic of the Rubric of Ahriman that had doomed his former Battle-Brothers to their unlife. He hunted the hellish realms of the Eye of Terror, to find the wayward former First Captain Ahzek Ahriman. Confronting his former friend in an epic sorcerous duel, Amon was ultimately defeated.
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Brotherhood of Lethe The Brotherhood of Lethe are a warband of Chaos Space Marines that were once a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter known as the Crusaders of Dorn. Though their origin and Founding is unknown, their Chapter name suggests lineage from the Imperial Fists. The Crusaders of Dorn were corrupted after entering the Eye of Terror in 321.M37 as part of the disastrous Abyssal Crusade. They eventually re-emerged as the Chaos warband known as the Brotherhood of Lethe.
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Brotherhood of the Plague The Brotherhood of the Plague are a Chaos Space Marine warband of unknown origin. This warband's corrupted Astartes are ardent followers of the Plague God Nurgle.
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Brotherhood of Unclean Mercy The Brotherhood of Unclean Mercy are a Chaos Warband of Chaos Space Marines dedicated to the Plague God Nurgle. Free to act according to their own plans, the members of the Brotherhood of Unclean Mercy were able to seize upon an opportunity of random chance and infect the entire store of supplies in a passing merchant fleet. Thus enhanced, the cargo spread the Stenchgut Plague to an entire continent on Xurunt.
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Brothers of Darkness The Brotherhood of Darkness a formerly Loyalist Space Marine Chapter of unknown origin or Founding. Corrupted by the Ruinous Powers, they have become a Renegade Space Marine Warband, and still rules over the home world once gifted to them by the Imperium. There is little other information in regards to this Renegade Chapter in current Imperial records.
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Brothers of Livos The Brothers of Livos are a fanatical warband of Chaos Space Marines of unknown origin and Founding. Corrupted beyond recognition, these once-proud warriors are sworn to the service of the Dark Gods, and allow the daemons of the Warp to possess their superhuman Astartes bodies. As a result, this warband fields an unusually large number of Possessed Chaos Space Marine squads.
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Brothers of Retaliation The Brothers of Retaliation are a Chaos Space Marine warband, led by Chaos Lord Laudren Thalarn, that was created after leaving the Planet of the Sorcerers a thousand standard years after the death of Horus. The Brothers' sole purpose is to seek revenge against the Imperium for the cruel fate inflicted upon the Thousand Sons and their homeworld of Prospero during the opening years of the galaxy-wide conflict known as the Horus Heresy.
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Brothers of the Anvil See entry for Deathmongers
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The Broken The Broken are a warband of Chaos Space Marines. They were once a Loyalist Chapter of Space Marines of unknown origin and Founding known as the Viridian Consuls. They were corrupted after entering the Eye of Terror in 321.M37 as part of the disastrous Abyssal Crusade. It is unknown what they endured during their sojourn into the Eye, but by the time they made their way back into realspace, they had become the warband of Chaos Space Marines known as The Broken.
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Butcherhorde The Butcherhorde is a large warband of Chaos Space Marines comprised of a coalition of multiple World Eaters Traitor Legion warbands. Led by the infamous Khârn the Betrayer, the Butcherhorde was formed originally from the frenzied Khornate Berserkers who followed The Betrayer. Over time, as Khârn has slaughtered his way across the galaxy, the warband has grown to encompass all manner of Khornate devotees. These include ordinary Chaos Space Marines, Chaos Cultists, Daemon Princes, and Daemon Engines.

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Carrion Hounds The Carrion Hounds is a warband or vectorium of the Death Guard Traitor Legion. Vast hordes of Poxwalkers screen the advance of the Carrion Hounds. The warriors of this vile host hold a great affection for the shambling monsters, and often assemble morbid "collections" of infected souls, such as defeated Astra Militarum regiments or entire noble families.
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Children of Blain The Children of Blain, sometimes known by the more common moniker "Chil'Blains", is a warband of Chaos Space Marines dedicated to Nurgle that was once the Loyalist Space Marine Chapter known as the Steel Cobras. It is now a component warband of the Death Guard.
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Children of Purgatos The Children of Purgatos are a Renegade Chapter of Chaos Space Marines of unknown Founding and origin, that was declared Excommunicate Traitoris by the High Lords of Terra for reasons that are not listed in Imperial records. What remains of the Chapter now operates as a Chaos Space Marine warband. The warband was founded and is currently led by Battle Psyker Kerberos. The Children of Purgatos specialise in undertaking ship-to-ship boarding actions as they often operate as pirates and reavers of Imperial shipping.
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Children of Torment The Children of Torment are a special formation of Chaos Space Marines found within the Black Legion who are wholly dedicated to the service of Slaanesh. Hundreds of followers of the Prince of Pleasure have sworn their allegiance to Abaddon the Despoiler and joined the ranks of the Black Legion. Under the guidance of warlords such as Devram Korda, they are comprised of multiple powerful warbands which comprise this hedonistic collective.
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The Chosen of Heiros The Chosen of Heiros are a notorious Chaos Warband of Chaos Space Marines. These sadistic killers once numbered among Abaddon's mightiest warriors and are responsible for countless atrocities during his infamous Black Crusades. Each had their own reasons for abandoning their villainous master and fleeing to the Screaming Vortex, yet all burn with an unquenchable desire to march to war beneath banners of hate and destruction.
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Chorus of Eltain The Chorus of Eltain were once a Loyalist Chapter of Space Marines of unknown origin and Founding. They were lost after entering the Eye of Terror in 321.M37 as part of the Imperial Abyssal Crusade. It is unknown what they endured during their sojourn into the Eye, and they were declared Martyr Extremis by the Imperial Inquisition, considered to have been wiped out by the Forces of Chaos.
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Chosen of Nemeroth The Chosen of Nemeroth are a warband of Chaos Space Marines who were led by the infamous Chaos Sorcerer Nemeroth. Nemeroth led his Chaos warband in an attempt to conquer the Imperial Forge World of Graia located in the Segmentum Tempestus in late M41, that was defeated by the Ultramarines 2nd Company under the command of Captain Titus. The Chosen of Nemeroth were known to make extensive use of daemons as allies.
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Claws of Lorek The Claws of Lorek are a warband of Chaos Space Marines of unknown allegiance. They are suspected of having a connection to the Astral Claws, the once Loyalist Space Marine Chapter that now forms the Red Corsairs Warband.
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The Cleaved The Cleaved are a warband of Chaos Space Marines of unknown origin and allegiance. These mysterious warriors first appeared during the insurrection on the world of Magma Codelian. These Chaos Space Marines possess strange, oil-like blood oozing from the joints in their battle-plate. Even massively outnumbered, the power armoured warriors of The Cleaved exhibit an incredibly high pain threshold, fighting on through mortal wounds.
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Clerics of Steel See entry for Invocators.
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Company of Misery The Company of Misery is a warband of Chaos Space Marines of unknown allegiance. Since the degradation of their gene-seed stocks in the 32nd Millennium, the formerly Loyalist Chapter known as the Desolate Brotherhood found themselves assigned to impossibly dangerous and undesirable duties. After a catastrophe in the acid swamps of the world of Misery, the Chapter took a new name and left their duties behind, forever becoming sworn enemies of the Imperium and the illusion of hope.
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Company of the Shadow The Company of the Shadow is a Renegade Chapter of Chaos Space Marines that were a formerly Loyalist Space Marine Chapter known as the Death Falcons that were Founded during the dawn of M41. They hailed from the night-shrouded world of Bastonbeil, which lay within the far reaches of the Eastern Fringe at the very limits of the Astronomican. From the underhive of Bastonbeil's capital city of the Shadowhive, which also served as the Chapter's fortress-monastery, awoke an ancient and terrible creature of darkness which fed upon the souls of the living. The Death Falcons deployed the entire strength of their Chapter to confront this evil, but after three months they re-emerged from the pits of blackness as the Company of Shadow.
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Corpsemakers The Corpsemakers are a cruel, twenty-strong squad of Chaos Terminators drawn from the notorious Black Legion. During the Eydolim Campaign, the Chaos Space Marine forces were bolstered by warriors from the Black Legion, few of whom were as influential, or as cruel, as the Corpsemakers. This rampaging squad of traitors and murders battled their way into the breach before their bloody advance was halted by the Imperial forces. The Corpsemakers' allegiance, like their parent legion, are to Chaos Undivided.
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Corpsemakers (Death Guard) The Corpsemakers is a warband or vectorium of the Death Guard Traitor Legion. The Corpsemakers see the destruction of the Imperium's grandest strongholds as their profane duty. Burrowing into the bedrock of enemy bastions like maggots through flesh, they undermine and corrupt the foundations so that the entire structure soon falls.
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Corpus Brethren The Corpus Brethren are a warband of Chaos Space Marines dedicated to the Pleasure God Slaanesh. They were once a Loyalist Chapter of Space Marines of unknown origin and Founding known as the Sentinels. They were corrupted after entering the Eye of Terror in 321.M37 as part of the Imperial Abyssal Crusade.
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Coven of Nine The Coven of Nine is a warband of Chaos Space Marines dedicated to the service of Tzeentch, the Lord of Change. They participated in the assault on the Stygius Sector during the Stygius Crusade that ultimately led to the conquest of that region of the Imperium for the Changer of Ways.
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Creations of Bile The Creations of Bile is the collective name for the many servants and genetically-altered creations employed by the infamous Chaos Lord and former Emperor's Children Chief Apothecary Fabius Bile.
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Crimson Slaughter The Crimson Slaughter is a Renegade warband of Chaos Space Marines dedicated to Chaos Undivided. Originally known as the Crimson Sabres, it is believed that they were created during the mysterious 13th Founding, also known as the "Dark Founding," which occurred sometime between M35 and M36. Problems culminated with the genocidal war on Umidia. The Chapter soon found themselves cursed by the Chaos God Khorne, forever haunted by the fell voices of the slain even after the combat had ended.
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Crimson Sons The Crimson Sons are a warband of Chaos Space Marines dedicated to the Chaos God Tzeentch that was originally formed by members of the Thousand Sons Traitor Legion. The Crimson Sons were exiled by their Primarch Magnus the Red for aiding in the casting of the disastrous sorcerous ritual known as the Rubric of Ahriman. Despite this exile, the warband paid tribute to the Crimson King, their Primarch Magnus the Red, with their name and also by colouring their Power Armour a deep red.
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Crusaders of Dorn See entry for Brotherhood of Lethe.
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The Crystal Harbingers The Crystal Harbingers are a thrallband of the Thousand Sons Traitor Legion. The Sorcerers of the Crystal Harbingers delve into the hidden recesses of the Silver Towers to explore the Tzeentchian labyrinth to which they lead. Here they glean portents of the future and commune with daemonic entities, which they then use to terrifying effect in their wars against the forces of the Imperium.
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Crystal Wyverns The Crystal Wyverns are a warband of Chaos Space Marines. They were once a Loyalist Chapter of Space Marines of unknown origin and Founding known as the Bronze Gorgons. They were corrupted after entering the Eye of Terror in 321.M37 as part of the Imperial Abyssal Crusade. It is unknown what they endured during their sojourn into the Eye, but by the time they made their way back into realspace, they had become the warband of Chaos Space Marines known as the Crystal Wyverns.
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Cursed Company The Cursed Company is a little known warband of Chaos Space Marines of unknown origin and Founding.

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Daggerfangs The Daggerfangs are a Chaos Warband comprised of Chaos Space Marines from the Alpha Legion Traitor Legion. Led by Chaos Lord Vykus Skayle, the Daggerfangs are unlike other Alpha Legion warbands, as they are faithful devotees of the Ruinous Powers.
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Damned Company of Lord Caustos The Damned Company of Lord Caustos is a Warband of Chaos Space Marines that were formerly a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter of unknown origin and Founding. Due to circumstances beyond their control, they were declared as renegades by an overzealous Inquisitor, which forced them to seek other means in order to survive in a hostile galaxy.
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Dark Tusks The Dark Tusks Chaos Space Marines are a Renegade Chapter or a simple warband of Chaos Space Marines apparently sworn to the service of Nurgle. The Dark Tusks wear corroded, rotten Power Armour and smell of putrescence, decaying flesh and disease. They also carry an array of daemon weapons and "plague weapons." The Dark Tusks serve as mercenaries in the Halo Stars, often advancing the agenda of those with nefarious or Chaotic designs.
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Death Falcons See entry for the Company of the Shadow.
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Death Guard The Death Guard are one of the Traitor Legions of Chaos Space Marines. They worship and devote themselves exclusively to the Chaos God Nurgle and as a result of his mutational "gifts" they have become Plague Marines; Astartes who are eternally rotting away within their Power Armour and infected with every known form of disease and decay but who are immune to all pain or minor injury.
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Death Mongers The Death Mongers are a warband of Chaos Space Marines. They were once a Loyalist Chapter of Space Marines of unknown origin and Founding, known as the Brothers of the Anvil. They were corrupted after entering the Eye of Terror in 321.M37 as part of the Imperial Abyssal Crusade. During their sojourn into the Eye, they landed upon an ancient Eldar Crone World and were captured by xenos Kabalites. After enduring horrific torture at the hands of their Dark Eldar captors the remains of the Brothers of the Anvil slaughtered their way back into realspace, unrecognisable as a formerly loyal Chapter.
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Death Shadows The Death Shadows was a Renegade Chapter of Chaos Space Marines who were once a Loyalist Chapter of Astartes known as the Lionguard before they were corrupted in M37 during their participation in the Abyssal Crusade. They were known to specialise in the use of sabotage and terror tactics against their foes. In late M41, the Death Shadows withdrew to the Fortress World of Sybari after a disastrous campaign against the Ultramarines. Whilst in the planning stages of a retaliatory strike against their hated Loyalist foes, a tendril of Hive Fleet Behemoth invaded the Sybari System and consumed the planet.
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Desolate Brotherhood See entry for Company of Misery
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Disciples of Destruction The Disciples of Destruction are a warband of Chaos Space Marines of unknown origin and allegiance. They were first sighted by Imperial forces in 988.M41. The Disciples of Destruction wear purple and a dark orange camouflage patterned Power Armour with gold trim on the shoulder guards and greaves. Tattered devotional scrolls dedicated to the Chaos Gods often hang from their armour.
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Dolorous Gnaw The Dolorous Gnaw is a warband or vectorium of the Death Guard Traitor Legion's 3rd Plague Company. Noxious Blightbringers are especially prevalent in the vectoriums of the 3rd Plague Company. Such warbands as the Putrid Choir or the Dolorous Gnaw rarely take to the battlefield without two or three Noxious Blightbringers to herald them into battle.
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Dolorous Guard The Dolorous Guard is a warband of Chaos Space Marines that are the survivors of the corrupted Ashen Blades Chapter of the Adeptus Astartes, who were of unknown genetic origin and Founding. They were commanded by the Chaos Lord and Chaos Champion of Slaanesh Markog and served as the honour guard of the Sorcerer Lord Seraphax, the Fallen Angel who was the leader of the Ten Thousand Eyes warhost.
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Dragon Warriors The Dragon Warriors are a warband of Chaos Space Marines. They are dedicated to the destruction of both the Salamanders Chapter and their homeworld of Nocturne and have long considered the Salamanders to be their greatest foes. The Dragon Warriors are led by the Chaos Sorcerer and former Salamander Librarian Nihilan, who forged the warband from the Chaos Space Marines who had followed his former master and tutor Vai'tan Ushorak, a former Chaplain of the Black Dragons Chapter before he became corrupted by Chaos.
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Dusk Raiders The Dusk Raiders were the XIV Legion of the Legiones Astartes raised by the Emperor of Mankind on Terra at the dawn of the Great Crusade in M30. After the Emperor discovered the Dusk Raiders' Primarch Mortarion on the poisonous world of Barbarus, and gave him command of the XIV Legion, Mortarion changed the name of the Legion to the Death Guard.

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Eagles Iridescent The Eagles Iridescent are a warband of Chaos Space Marines dedicated to the service of Tzeentch, the Lord of Change. They participated in the triumphant final assault on Cadia by the Forces of Chaos during the 13th Black Crusade in 999.M41. Little else is currently known about them in Imperial records.
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Ebon Sentinels The Ebon Sentinels are a Renegade Chapter of Chaos Space Marines once loyal to the Imperium who were purged by the Grey Knights at the Battle of Manask.
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Emissaries of Wasting Death The Emissaries of Wasting Death are a notorious Chaos Warband dedicated to the Plague God, Nurgle. The Plague Marines of the Wasting Death are particularly feared among the many denizens of the Screaming Vortex, for their very presence brings with it untold suffering and privation.
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Emperor's Children Originally they were known as the proud III Legion of the Legiones Astartes. The Emperor's Children were the only Space Marine Legion to bear the Emperor's own name and His own icon -- the Palatine Aquila. They were noble in action and aspect, excelling in all matters, strong, civilised, firm of purpose and loyal to the core. From this height they descended in treachery to the lowest and vilest of creatures, becoming a Traitor Legion of Chaos Space Marines who devote themselves solely to the service of the Chaos God Slaanesh.
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Empyrion's Blight Empyrion's Blight is a warband of traitorous Chaos Space Marines of the Death Guard Traitor Legion who thrive on conflict, devastating entire worlds and leaving behind nothing but seething pestilence and death. These former Space Marines have now given over wholly to the foul taint of Nurgle.
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Eightscarred The Eightscarred are a Khorne Daemonkin warband that is utterly uncompromising in their violent faith. They are unhinged fanatics who see themselves as Khorne's only true disciples. Their zealotry is horrific in its intensity, driving them from one war zone to the next amid a never-ending tidal wave of gore.
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Encrusted Blade The Encrusted Blade are an infamous Chaos Warband of Chaos Space Marines dedicated to the Blood God Khorne. Worlds across the Imperium and beyond have fallen to the blood-rites of this notorious warband.
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Endless Murder The Endless Murder is a warband of Chaos Space Marines that splintered from the World Eaters Traitor Legion. Nobody knows where the Endless Murder come from, or where they go when the killing is done. Appearing like a tidal wave from a becalmed ocean, they strike without warning and reduce all before them to bloody carrion and heaped skulls. Then they vanish once more like mist. Most recently, during the 13th Black Crusade, this warband fought alongside the monstrous Butcherhorde, a conglomeration of multiple World Eaters warbands led by the infamous Khârn the Betrayer, who led them in the slaughter of the Imperial world of Amethal in the Diamor System against the valiant defence of the Blood Angels Space Marine Chapter.
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Exquisite Host The Exquisite Host is a Chaos Space Marine warband in the service of Slaanesh. It is not known with any certainty, but they are most likely a warband originally derived from the Emperor's Children Traitor Legion. The Exquisite Host is known to employ an infamous battle formation known as the so-called Lament of the Damned -- a terrifying onslaught of Chaos Sonic Dreadnoughts bound to the service of Slaanesh -- outfitted with the same destructive and mind-blasting arcane sonic technology as the Noise Marines.
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Extinction Angels The Extinction Angels are a Renegade Chapter of Chaos Space Marines that has sworn itself to the service of Chaos Undivided. The Extinction Angels are one of the Renegade Chapters that turned to Chaos after the Horus Heresy and the Second Founding. The Chapter is infamous for its skill in launching planetary assaults.

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The Faithless The Faithless are a large warband of Chaos Space Marines drawn from the Alpha Legion who operate off of the Chaos Battleship Anarchy's Heart. Formerly led by the Chaos Lord Arkos the Faithless, the warband is now believed to have been destroyed during the Siege of Vraks. Arkos himself is currently a prisoner of the Dark Angels Chapter of Space Marines.
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Favoured Sons The Favoured Sons is a splinter warband of Plague Marines that has become independent of the Death Guard Traitor Legion's central command. Having broken away from Mortarion's rule, the Favoured Sons seek Nurgle's blessings for themselves. Each Heretic Astartes of this warband tries to outdo his brothers in the hope of earning daemonhood. Their master,Vermithrus the Blighted, is a Daemon Prince who surrounds himself with gruesome champions of Nurgle.
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Fecund Ones The Fecund Ones is a warband or vectorium of the Death Guard Traitor Legion's 7th Plague Company. When an Imperial Agri-world is infected with one of the innumerable poxes of Nurgle, the warband known as the Fecund Ones are often the culprits. Belonging to the alchemically-gifted 7th Plague Company, the Fecund Ones are masters of brewing virulent blights and parasitic phages. They delight in sowing these putrescent gifts among the food supplies of the Imperium's oblivious masses, leading many worlds they invade to be crippled by either hideous vomiting plagues or widespread famine and starvation.
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Filth-favoured The Filth-favoured are a warband or vectorium of the Death Guard Traitor Legion's 4th Plague Company. They are commanded by a Death Guard Sorcerer and are one of the few Death Guard warbands which likes to enter battle amidst living carpets of Nurglings, the Lesser Daemons of the Plague God Nurgle. Little else is known about the Filth-favoured in current Imperial records.
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Fire Reavers The Fire Reavers are a fanatical warband of Chaos Space Marines of unknown origin and Founding. Corrupted beyond recognition, these once-proud warriors are sworn to the service of the Dark Gods, and allow the daemons of the Warp to possess their superhuman Astartes bodies. As a result, this warband fields an unusually large number of Possessed Chaos Space Marine squads.
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Fists of Brass The Fists of Brass were a host of Khorne Daemonkin of unknown origin. Almost nothing is known about them from Imperial records aside from their involvement in a fatal clash with WAAAGH! Badstomp in 301.M40.
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Fists of Olchis The Fists of Olchis were once a Loyalist Chapter of Space Marines of unknown origin and Founding. They were lost after entering the Eye of Terror in 321.M37 as part of the Imperial Abyssal Crusade. It is unknown what they endured during their sojourn into the Eye, and they were declared Perditas by the Imperial Inquisition, who feared that if the Chapter still existed, it had been corrupted by Chaos.
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Flame Falcons The Flame Falcons was one of the cursed Space Marine Chapters created during the 21st Founding, the so-called 'Cursed' Founding. This Chapter was almost completely wiped out by the Inquisition before a hundred standard years had passed following its Founding. The cause of the Inquisition's attack was the fact that during an engagement, members of the Chapter spontaneously burst into flame, which they believed was a gift from the Emperor of Mankind. The members of the Inquisition did not share the Chapter's views, and when they returned to their home world of Lethe, they were attacked and almost completely destroyed by a force of Grey Knights.
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The Flawless Host The Flawless Host is a Chaos Space Marine warband in the service of Slaanesh. The Flawless Host believe they are the embodiment of justice and purity. Their gene-seed was once free from Chaotic taint, and the rigid mental training of their former incarnation as the Loyalist Space Marines known as the Shining Blades gave the Chapter an unshakable faith in its own abilities. Eventually, their overweening pride and willful delusion caused to become hedonistic servants of Slaanesh.
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Flickering Blades The Flickering Blades are a Renegade Warband of Chaos Noise Marines which broke away from their parent Traitor Legion, the Emperor's Children. Led by the infamous Noise Champion Volupus. Volupus, a son of Chemos, decided to go off on his own to form his own warband. In battle these warriors stride into combat wielding lithe swords that sing songs of death with every swing. From out of their twisted armour stretch numerous writhing tongues, each mutant maw licking its lips in lewd anticipation of the blood-splattering of close combat.
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The Flylords The Flylords are a warband of Chaos Space Marines. They were once a Loyalist Chapter of Space Marines of unknown origin and Founding known as the Vengeance Chapter. They were corrupted after entering the Eye of Terror in 321.M37 as part of the Imperial Abyssal Crusade. It is unknown what they endured during their sojourn into the Eye, but by the time they made their way back into realspace, they had become the warband of Chaos Space Marines known as The Flylords.
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Foresworn (Word Bearers) The Foresworn are a warband of Chaos Space Marines drawn from the Word Bearers Traitor Legion. Like their parent Traitor Legion, they are dedicated to Chaos Undivided.
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Foresworn (World Eaters) The Foresworn are a large warband of Chaos Space Marines drawn from the World Eaters Traitor Legion. The corrupted Astartes of this warband are all Khornate Berserkers. The Foresworn are led by the infamous Chaos Lord Kossolax the Foresworn.
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Forgeborn The Forgeborn are a warband of Chaos Space Marines of the Black Legion led by the Warpsmith D'vok the Unmaker. They became engaged in a conflict with the Craftworld Aeldari of Craftworld Saim-Hann when they sought to conquer the Exodite Maiden World of Daethe in the Nachmund Gauntlet.
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The Fractured The Fractured are a warband of Chaos Space Marines. They were once a Loyalist Chapter of Space Marines of unknown origin and Founding, known as the Justicars. They were corrupted after entering the Eye of Terror in 321.M37 as part of the Imperial Abyssal Crusade. It is unknown what they endured during their sojourn into the Eye, but by the time they made their way back into realspace, they had become the warband of Chaos Space Marines known as the The Fractured.

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Germinatoris The Germinatoris is a Chaos Space Marine warband dedicated to the Plague God Nurgle. The warband is composed of Plague Marines who prowl battlefields across the galaxy in order to grotesquely plunder the gene-seed of dead Chaos Space Marines. Once the gene-seed is within their grasp, the Germinatoris infect it with the viscous fluids that ooze from their rotting innards, in order to ensure the propagation of Nurgle's putrefying influence through the most potent of the Forces of Chaos.
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Gladiator Group 138 Gladiator Group 138 are a large warband of Chaos Space Marines drawn from the World Eaters Traitor Legion. Like their parent Traitor Legion, Gladiator Group 138 are dedicated to the Chaos God Khorne.
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Glooming Lords The Glooming Lords is a warband or vectorium of the Death Guard Traitor Legion's 6th Plague Company. The Glooming Lords are a morose host of killers who march to war surrounded by colossal clouds of droning black daemon-flies. They harbour a particular hatred for the sorcerous warbands of Tzeentch, whose vibrant, colourful vigour they regard as insufferable. Belonging to the 6th Plague Company, the Ferrymen, the Glooming Lords are led by heavy formations of Blightlord Terminators. Their bodies seethe with crawling flies as they crush the enemy contemptuously underfoot.
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Gorehands The Gorehands are a warband of Chaos Space Marines dedicated to the service of the Blood God Khorne. They participated in the triumphant final assault on Cadia by the Forces of Chaos during the 13th Black Crusade in 999.M41. Little else is currently known about them in Imperial records.
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Gorehounds The Gorehounds are a warband of Heretic Astartes dedicated to the service of the Blood God Khorne.
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Goremongers The Goremongers were a warband of Chaos Space Marines of unknown origin or Founding. Little else is known about this particular warband in official Imperial records. Recently, they took part in the Cholercaust Blood Crusade in the 41st Millennium. The Cholercauset suffered a total defeat and all in its ranks were slain, including the Goremongers, by the mysterious Legion of the Damned.
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Grand Order of Hermetic Blades The Grand Order of Hermetic Blades is a Chaos Space Marine warband dedicated to the Chaos God Tzeentch, that was originally formed by members of the Thousand Sons Traitor Legion who were exiled by their Primarch Magnus the Red for aiding in the disastrous sorcerous ritual called the Rubric of Ahriman. They believe it is their role to guide mortal souls into the afterlife, in the manner of the ancient psychopomp spirits they once worshiped on the Thousand Sons' lost Legion homeworld of Prospero. The warband now seeks to send mortals on to the afterlife they so relish using the most harrowing methods they can devise.
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Graven Fists See entry for Twisted Blades.
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Graven Spectres The Graven Spectres were a formerly Loyalist Space Marine Chapter of unknown Founding and origin. There is very little information on this obscure Chapter in official Imperial records.
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Grey Death The Grey Death are a Renegade Chapter of Chaos Space Marines that are sworn to the service of Nurgle. They were once a Loyalist Chapter of Space Marines known as the Iron Drakes. They were corrupted after entering the Eye of Terror in 321.M37 as part of the Imperial Abyssal Crusade. At some point during their sojourn in the Eye, the Iron Drakes were corrupted by Nurgle after being marooned on the Daemon World of Anathrax by the Death Guard and became the Grey Death, ready and willing to spread their plague across the stars.
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Grey Slayers The Grey Slayers was a Loyalist Space Marines Chapter of unknown origin and Founding that became corrupted by Chaos. Inquisitor Thrax purged the Chapter of mutants and daemons, and the Chapter Master took his own life in shame. Untainted officers were raised up to lead the Chapter. The purge was apparently not quite thorough enough, as Inquisitor Thrax himself was soon afterwards corrupted by the Ruinous Powers and transformed into some sort of daemonic Chaos beast. The Grey Slayers' eventual disposition and fate remains unknown in current Imperial records.

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Hakanor's Reavers Hakanor's Reavers are a warband of Chaos Space Marines of unknown origin and allegiance. They are led by the mighty Daemon Prince Hakanor who was formerly known as the Chapter Master Prometian. The Power Armour of these warriors now blazes with a heat that would melt its Ceramite plates if it was not sorcerous in nature. The plates now constantly crack and then cool and reform as a result of this constant heat.
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The Harvest The Harvest are a violent and brutal Khorne Daemonkin warband who excel at bloody defensive sieges in order to bring forth Daemon cohorts to slaughter these defenders and offer them up as bloody offerings to Khorne. Reconsecrating their stolen strongholds with the blood of the slain, the Harvest man the battlements of their newly captured fortress and wait for the full fury of the impending foe to break upon them like a glorious, terrible storm.
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Harvest Macabre The Harvest Macabre is a warband of Chaos Space Marines that splintered from the World Eaters Traitor Legion. The Harvest Macabre boast brass war helms and skull designs upon their armour carved from the bones of their victims. Most recently, during the 13th Black Crusade, this warband fought alongside the monstrous Butcherhorde, a conglomeration of multiple World Eaters warbands led by the infamous Khârn the Betrayer, who led them in the slaughter of the Imperial world of Amethal in the Diamor System against the valiant defence of the Blood Angels Space Marine Chapter.
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Hedonistarii The Hedonistarii are a warband of Chaos Space Marines dedicated to the Pleasure God Slaanesh. Though the exact origins of this warband are currently unknown, these Slaanesh-worshipping Renegades often raid the extremities of the Eastern Fringe in the Ultima Segmentum. The Hedonistarii are fleet-based pirates that revel in war for its own sake. So ready are they to tear down law and order wherever they find it that they have a long-standing pact with the anarchist Chaos Lord Drathoni, whose Heldrake eyries are famed amongst the Renegade Warpsmiths of the Ultima Segmentum.
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Heralds of Despair The Heralds of Despair is a warband or vectorium of the Death Guard Traitor Legion. The Heralds of Despair revel in prolonged sieges, and are obsessively methodical in their approach to warfare. After heavy bombardments and the severing of supply lines, they will seal an enemy force inside a fortress and watch as rot and hopelessness take hold of the inhabitants.
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Honourless The Honourless was a warband of Chaos Space Marines from the Alpha Legion Traitor Legion. Led by Chaos Lord Sispyhon Vail, the Honourless met their end when they boarded and captured the Cruiser Internecia of Interrogator Raughn Kiefer. While Kiefer did survive the clash with the Honourless in the ruined freighter on the surface of Grendl's World, his Attilan Rough Riders and the Molidor Ogryn Auxilia were entirely wiped out, his Salamander tank was destroyed, and he was left on the planet mortally wounded. Despite all that, his acolytes aboard the Internecia were able to hide from the Honourless in the engine chamber. Kiefer was able to contact the surviving acolytes and ordered them to stop the Honourless at all costs, which they did by blowing up the ship by unknown means.
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Hounds of Abaddon The Hounds of Abaddon are a special formation of Chaos Space Marines found within the Black Legion who are wholly dedicated to the service of Khorne. Within the ranks of the Black Legion, the greatest of the Traitor Legions which serves Chaos Undivided, there still exist thousands of devotees of the Blood God Khorne. These Khornate Berserkers are always at the forefront of the Legion's assaults, charging and howling into the fray.

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Iconoclasts The Iconoclasts are a warband of Chaos Space Marines. They were once a Loyalist Chapter of Space Marines of unknown origin and Founding, known as the Altar Brethren. They were corrupted after entering the Eye of Terror in 321.M37 as part of the Imperial Abyssal Crusade. It is unknown what they endured during their sojourn into the Eye, but by the time they made their way back into realspace, they had become the warband of Chaos Space Marines known as the Iconoclasts.
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Immortal Legion The Immortal Legion was a Chaos Space Marine warband that possessed fortresses on the twin worlds of Corfex and Xefroc. The warband's fortresses later came under attack by the Astra Militarum and the Angels Vermillion Chapter of the Adeptus Astartes, but both easily withstood every assault made against them. It was only once the Angels Vermillion's Death Company broke through both fortresses' defences that the Immortal Legion were finally defeated by that Space Marine Chapter.
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Invocators The Invocators are a warband of Chaos Space Marines. They were once a Loyalist Chapter of Space Marines of unknown origin and Founding, known as the Clerics of Steel. They were corrupted after entering the Eye of Terror in 321.M37 as part of the Imperial Abyssal Crusade. It is unknown what they endured during their sojourn into the Eye, but by the time they made their way back into realspace, they had become the warband of Chaos Space Marines known as the Invocators.
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Imperial Heralds The Imperial Heralds were the formerly Loyalist XVII Legion of the Legiones Astartes. Before the return of their Primarch Lorgar and the discovery of Colchis, the XVII Legion was known amongst the vast hosts of the Great Crusade by various designations. The Emperor named them the "Imperial Heralds" at their inception, an elegant title that spoke of the grand purpose for which they had been created. Eventually, they would fall to the corrupting influence of the Ruinous Powers and would become the architects of the galaxy-wide conflict known as the Horus Heresy.
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Iron Drakes See entry for The Grey Death.
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Iron Warriors The Iron Warriors are one of the nine Traitor Legions that turned to the service of Chaos during the Horus Heresy and now fight to overthrow the Imperium of Man. The Iron Warriors, who were originally the IV Legion of the Legiones Astartes, specialised in the breaking of sieges and assaults on static fortifications, which made them great rivals of the Imperial Fists Legion, said to construct the greatest static defences in the Imperium. It was this rivalry between the Legions, and between their Primarchs Perturabo and the Imperial Fists' Rogal Dorn, that helped turn the Iron Warriors to Chaos.

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Justicars A once Loyalist Chapter of Space Marines of unknown origin and Founding, the Justicars were corrupted after entering the Eye of Terror in 321.M37 as part of the Imperial Abyssal Crusade. When they emerged back into realspace they had become the Heretic Astartes warband known as The Fractured.

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Killmongers The Killmongers are a warband of Chaos Space Marines of unknown origin or Founding. They are more than likely devoted to Chaos Undivided. There is little other information on this obscure warband in known Imperial records.
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Kindled Spirits The Kindled Spirits was a thrallband of the Thousand Sons Traitor Legion that was lost during the event known as the First War of the Webway in 579.M37.
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Knights Excelsior See entry for Magma Hounds.
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Knights of Blood The Knights of Blood were a formerly Loyalist Space Marine Successor Chapter of the vaunted Blood Angels. Like many of their fellow Scions of Sanguinius, the Knights of Blood were greatly affected by their gene-seed's twin genetic flaws of the Black Rage and Red Thirst. This led to their violent nature and brutal mien, which led to the Knights of Blood committing so many excesses in the Emperor's name, that at the beginning of M41 they were decreed Renegades by the High Lords of Terra, and cast beyond the Emperor's light. In 999.M41, the Knights of Blood were slaughtered to the last man during the Battle of Baal.
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Knights of Blood (Warband) The Knights of Blood are a warband of frenzied Chaos Space Marines of unknown origin who are most likely servants of the Blood God Khorne. They have been responsible for numerous massacres of Imperial populations including the ones carried out on the worlds of Cadon, Helka II, Obsus Prima and most recently on Ornsworld.

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Lances of Pteros See entry for Lords of Decay.
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Lectors of Ixis See entry for Oracles of Change.
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Lionguard See entry for Death Shadows.
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Lifeslayers The Lifeslayers are a warband of Chaos Space Marines that splintered from the World Eaters Traitor Legion. They are known to wear faded battle-plate that is the result of the extreme war zones through which they fight -- to test their might against the very worlds on which they war.
Lords of Decay Death Guard Warband
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Lords of Decay The Lords of Decay are a warband of Chaos Space Marines who were once a Loyalist Chapter of Space Marines known as the Lances of Pteros. They were corrupted after entering the Eye of Terror in 321.M37 as part of the Imperial Abyssal Crusade. At some point during their sojourn in the Eye, the Lances of Pteros were corrupted by Nurgle and latter absorbed into the Death Guard Traitor Legion.
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Lords of Desolation The Lords of Desolation were a Chaos warband led by the Word Bearers Traitor Legion Sorcerer X'hal Urus. Made up primarily of Traitor Imperial Guard and daemons allied with Urus, they assaulted a thousand worlds during their rampage against the Imperium of Man. Their reign of terror finally came to an end on the world of Sepharis Ultra when they were eradicated by the zealous Black Templars Chapter.
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Lords of Pain The Lords of Pain is a warband of Chaos Space Marines that was once a Loyalist Chapter of Space Marines. This Renegade Space Marine Chapter fell to Chaos after the birth of the Great Rift in 999.M41 during the 13th Black Crusade. After their fall to the service of the Ruinous Powers, the Lords of Pain were among the Forces of Chaos to face Roboute Guilliman and his Indomitus Crusade as it sought to reconquer the galaxy in the Emperor's name. Little else is currently known about them in Imperial records.
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Lords of Silence The Lords of Silence is a powerful warband or vectorium of the Death Guard Traitor Legion. The Lords of Silence maintains a force of over 600 Heretic Astartes dedicated to the service of the Plague God, as well as thousands of Chaos Cultists and Nurgle-warped mutants.
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Lord Skchalick's Elite Lord Skchalick's Elite are a warband of Chaos Space Marines drawn from the World Eaters Traitor Legion. The corrupted Astartes of the warband are all Khornate Berserkers. This warband is led by the infamous Chaos Lord Skchalick.
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Luna Wolves The Luna Wolves were the formerly Loyalist XVI Legion of the Legiones Astartes raised by the Emperor of Mankind on Terra at the dawn of the Great Crusade in the late 30th Millennium. Few other Legions could match their achievements and of those that could few could rival the XVI Legion for the brightness with which their victories shone. But eventually their Primarch Horus would fall to the service of the Dark Gods of Chao, leading his Legion into damnation with him.

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  • Black Crusade: Core Rulebook (RPG)
  • Black Crusade: Tome of Decay (RPG), pp. 17, 31, 33
  • Black Legion - A Codex: Chaos Space Marines Supplement (6th Edition)
  • Codex: Chaos Space Marines (6th Edition)
  • Codex: Chaos Space Marines (4th Edition)
  • Codex: Eye of Terror (3rd Edition)
  • Codex: Khorne Daemonkin (7th Edition)
  • Champions of Fenris - A Codex: Space Wolves Supplement (7th Edition)
  • Crimson Slaughter - A Codex: Chaos Space Marine Supplement (6th Edition), pp. 30-31
  • Deathwatch: First Founding (RPG)
  • Hive of the Dead (Adventure Book Supplement) by C.Z. Dunn
  • Imperial Armour The Horus Heresy - Betrayal: Book One
  • Index Astartes I
  • Index Astartes II
  • Index Astartes III
  • Index Astartes IV
  • Index Chaostica Volume One
  • Realms of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness (1st Edition)
  • Realms of Chaos: The Lost and the Damned (1st Edition)
  • War Zone Fenris: Curse of the Wulfen
  • The Chapter's Due (Novel) by Graham McNeill
  • Dead Sky, Black Sun (Novel) by Graham McNeill
  • Heroes of the Space Marines (Anthology), "The Skull Harvest," (Short Story) by Graham McNeill
  • The Emperor's Chosen (Short Story) by Mike Lee
  • Dawn of War - Dark Crusade (PC Game)
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