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Blood Trinity - Trivia: The opening quote on this page is actually an alteration of a famous quote from the 1982 movie Conan the Barbarian starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as the eponymous barbarian. In the movie, when asked what is best in life by his slave master, Conan responds, "To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women."Yet this quote itself was derived in the movie from a real world source about the Mongol emperor Ghenghis Khan, as quoted in Ghengis Khan: The Emperor of All Men by Harold Lamb, on pp. 106-107:"One day in the pavilion at Karakorum he [Genghis Kahn] asked an officer of the Mongol guard what, in all the world, could bring the greatest happiness.'The open steppe, a clear day, and a swift horse under you,' responded the officer after a little thought, 'and a falcon on your wrist to start up hares.''Nay,' responded the Khan, 'to crush your enemies, to see them fall at your feet -- to take their horses and goods and hear the lamentation of their women. That is best.'"
Blood Wings - Blood Wings: The Blood Wings is a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter and a Successor Chapter of the Blood Angels, created during an unknown Founding.Created as they were from the Blood Angels' gene-seed, the Blood Wings carry the genetic Flaw inherited from Sanguinius, which makes them susceptible to the afflictions known as the Black Rage and the Red Thirst.When a Battle-Brother falls to the throes of the Black Rage he is placed within the ranks of the Death Company.
Blood Wings - Notable Campaigns: Devastation of Baal (ca. 999.M41) - During the Devastation of Baal, the Blood Wings was among the Successor Chapters that answered Dante's call for aid in the face of Hive Fleet Leviathan's assault on Baal. The entire contingent sent by the Chapter was destroyed to the last Astartes during the fighting.
Blood Wings - Chapter Colours: The Blood Wings' Chapter colours are not listed in current Imperial records.
Blood Wings - Chapter Badge: The Blood Wings' Chapter badge is not listed in current Imperial records.
Blood Wolves - Blood Wolves: The Blood Wolves are a warband of Chaos Space Marines that were once a Great Company of the Loyalist Space Wolves Chapter of Space Marines.Following their corrupted Wolf Lord, Svane Vulfbad, these once-proud warriors are sworn to the service of Khorne.
Blood Wolves - Wolf's Fall: The Blood Wolves were once the Great Company of Svane Vulfbad, a Wolf Lord of the Space Wolves Chapter. He became so disillusioned with the grinding workings and soul-killing bureaucracy of the Imperium that he and his Great Company turned to the worship of Chaos, and more particularly to the faith of the Blood God Khorne.In 913.M41 Wolf Lord Harald Deathwolf and his Great Company were charged by the Great Wolf Logan Grimnar to track down and execute the notorious Traitor warband and their leader. Deathwolf and his company eventually located Vulfbad in the Cliedes System, tracking their elusive quarry to the storm-wracked moon of Gallimius.Deathwolf rode his ferocious Thunderwolf through the planet's ferrite dust storms at the head of a small strike force of Wolf Scouts. The visibility was so bad that Deathwolf had to track his quarry purely by scent, but he later claimed the stink of rank sweat and treachery was so strong it was child's play to follow. It has been said that Harald's senses are so sharp he can smell the fear of his prey from several leagues distance.After solar weeks of stalking their prey, Deathwolf's hunting party cornered the Blood Wolves atop a dust-crowned mountain just as the Traitor Vulfbad was completing a sorcerous summoning ritual that would have seen his traitorous forces thronged with Daemon allies.The Renegade Space Wolf fought like a madman even after many of his Heretic Astartes had been slain, badly wounding Harald's Thunderwolf in the process, but he was ultimately outmatched.As Harald brought his axe around to deliver the deathblow, a bolt of lightning struck them both. When the dust settled all that remained of Vulfbad and his warband was his Frost Axe, a shard of which now juts from the cybernetic jaw of Harald's Thunderwolf.The current status of the Blood Wolves and their leader remains unknown.
Blood Wolves - Warband Colours: The Blood Wolves wear bronze power armour. They make use of unit markings similar to those of the Space Wolves, except coloured cream and blood red.
Blood Wolves - Chapter Badge: The Blood Wolves have no specific identifying symbol, instead incorporating the various blasphemous sigils and iconography of Chaos as their identifying marks.
Blood Wolves - Sources: Codex: Chaos Space Marines (4th Edition), pg. 30Codex: Space Wolves (7th Edition), pg. 24White Dwarf 387 (UK), "In the Company of Wolves - Saga of Harald Deathwolf" by Phil Kelly, pp. 56-59
Bloodblessed - Bloodblessed: The Bloodblessed are a Khorne Daemonkin host that makes great use of Chaos Spawn. These fanatics round up great hordes of these mutated beasts, believing them to be the true form that Khorne desires for all mortals.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 worshippers of Chaos as a dire punishment for failure in service to the Ruinous Powers has become, to the Bloodblessed, the ultimate reward.
Bloodblessed - Warband Colours: The Bloodblessed warband's colours are not listed in current Imperial records.
Bloodblessed - Warband Badge: The Bloodblessed warband's badge is not listed in current Imperial records.
Bloodborn - Bloodborn: The Bloodborn was an alliance of the Forces of Chaos comprised of multiple Chaos Space Marine warbands and rogue regiments of Planetary Defence Forces and Imperial Guardsmen. The Bloodborn 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 assaulted the Ultramarines' Realm of Ultramar in the campaign remembered simply as the Invasion of Ultramar.
Bloodborn - Notable Campaigns: Invasion of Ultramar (999.M41) - The Invasion of Ultramar was launched by a large Chaos warband known as the Bloodborn, who invaded the Ultramarines' Realm of Ultramar. The invasion was jointly lead by the Iron Warriors Warsmith Honsou and the Daemon Prince M'kar the Reborn, both servants of the Ruinous Powers who had sworn revenge against the Ultramarines for past wrongs they believed had been done to them. The Chaos invasion occurred roughly concurrently with Abaddon the Despoiler's 13th Black Crusade in 999.M41. The Bloodborn's invasion was not officially a part of the Black Crusade's forces. Ultimately this quest for vengeance was foiled, as Honsou escaped and M'kar was banished back to the Warp by the Ultramarines.
Bloodborn - Warband Colours: The Bloodborn warband used a variety of colours because of its mixture of Iron Warriors and other Chaos Space Marine warbands.
Bloodborn - Warband Badge: The Bloodborn warband used a variety of badges because of its mixture of Iron Warriors and other Chaos Space Marine warbands.
Bloodborn - Sources: The Chapter's Due (Novel) by Graham McNeillDead Sky, Black Sun (Novel) by Graham McNeillThe Skull Harvest (Short Story) by Graham McNeill
Bloodcrusher - Bloodcrusher: A Bloodcrusher is one of the members of the shock cavalry of Khorne's Daemonic Blood Legions, a deadly combination of Bloodletter rider and Juggernaut Daemonic beast steed.The Daemonic mounts of Khorne are neither beasts nor machines, but fusions of both. They are massive creatures whose flesh is brass, whose sinews are iron and whose blood is fire. Their breath is fear and their every step is thunder.As Juggernauts prepare to charge, they roar with the fury of a thousand dead souls. Said to be the most brutal of all the Blood God's many daemons, they are reflections of their creator's aggression, unstoppable force and mindless violence made manifest.
Bloodcrusher - Role: Only the most favoured of Khorne's Daemonic followers are granted the boon of a Juggernaut to ride to battle. Such an undertaking is not for the weak, for a Bloodletter must drag forth its chosen mount from the Blood God's stockade and survive long enough to break the homicidal steed.Many an aspiring Daemon has leapt upon the back of an enraged Juggernaut, only to be thrown and crushed into an unrecognisable smear. However, once mastered, a Juggernaut becomes the most lethal of all war-mounts.Small arms fire patters harmlessly from its hide, merely serving to enrage the daemonic beast further. Only the heaviest weapons have a chance of piercing its armoured skin, and by the time such armaments are brought to bear, it is usually too late.Once the armoured cavalry of Khorne begin their lumbering charge, nothing can deter them from their course. With broad heads lowered and powerful legs pistoning them ever onwards, Bloodcrushers are likened to unstoppable battering rams, momentum embodied.They smash their way through stone walls and steel barricades alike without ever slowing down. Sparks cascade in their wake as they batter through obstacles, lowering their bladed and brutal heads for the collision they know is coming.The ground itself shakes with fear under the Daemonic cavalry's heavy treads and, directed by the murderous intent of the Bloodletters atop them, they crash into their terrified foes with the force of gigantic sledgehammers, sending lifeless bodies flying in all directions and trampling underfoot anything foolish enough to remain in their way.Once embroiled in the press of combat, Juggernauts will crush those that stand before them with the ease of a man wading through long grass, each new kill coating their legs with fresh blood and gore. Horns gashing and gutting, teeth gouging and tearing, the daemonic mounts bull their way through any melee.From their broad backs the Bloodletters bring their Hellblades down in great arcs to behead those enemies still standing. Bloodcrushers take no prisoners and show no mercy -- all are fodder to their insatiable appetite for slaughter.Bloodcrushers can be found in any of Khorne's armies, used as a bludgeoning wedge to break enemy battle lines or smash through fortifications. The Brazen Thunder Legions are particularly formidable, for they are based upon cohorts made up of Bloodcrushers and led by the mounted Heralds of Khorne known as "Skullmasters."Their earth-shaking stampedes create the bass sound for which these legions are named, a gut-churning reverberation that has eroded the resolve and sanity of many great warriors and generals. Any brave or foolish enough to stand their ground in the face of this stampede are crushed beneath the pitiless brass hooves of the cavalry of Khorne.Entire Astra Militarum tank companies are as nothing to them. Their wrecking-ball charges have levelled fortresses, flattened Exodite temples and brought down Imperial Knights. While a single pack of Bloodcrushers can annihilate an army, an entire legion of them can decimate a world.
Bloodcrusher - Unit Composition: 2-11 Bloodcrushers1 Bloodhunter (squadron leader)
Bloodcrusher - Bloodletter Rider: Hellblade
Bloodcrusher - Juggernaut Mount: Juggernaut's Bladed Horn
Bloodfiend - Bloodfiend: A Bloodfiend is a vampiric mutant creation that resulted from a failed cloning procedure carried out by the Blood Angels in a disastrous attempt to rapidly increase their numbers.The result were hideous creatures utterly consumed by the Red Thirst that were exploited by the machinations of Fabius Bile in an attempt to distract the Blood Angels while he stole a sample of the Primarch Sanguinius' blood to further his own dark research into "improving" upon the Emperor's original work.All of the Bloodfiends created were destroyed during a battle within the Blood Angels' fortress-monastery on Baal in the final years of the 41st Millennium.
Bloodfiend - Anatomy and Physiology: After being decanted, Bloodfiends were feral, primitive humanoids. As they drank more blood or consumed blood of greater potency than normal like that of an Astartes or a Primarch, they grew in strength and intelligence. After a Bloodfiend made a kill, it drained the body of its victim dry of all blood and other vital fluids.After tasting blood, Bloodfiends mutated into dark, reddish-brown humanoids whose bodily density was great enough to withstand even multiple shots from a Space Marine Bolter. They possessed extra joints in their limbs and extremities and their mouths were filled with rows of sharp fangs that were used to puncture the skin of their victims and devour their blood. They rapidly developed bat-like membranes between their limbs that allowed them to gracefully glide to the ground from a great height.It is unknown whether the Bloodfiends' rapid mutation was the result of Fabius Bile's deliberate sabotage or Caecus' ignorance of proper replicae cloning procedures for Astartes. Similar Space Marine cloning experiments by the Raven Guard during the Horus Heresy had led to the birth of mutant abominations like the Bloodfiends, though those efforts were also sabotaged by the machinations of the Alpha Legion.At the same time, when Caecus discovered Bile's true identity, the Clonelord mocked his poor attempts at genetic engineering. Bile noted that he had been experimenting with Astartes genetics for ten thousand Terran years and Caecus' crude attempts had never had even a chance of success.
Bloodgorged, The - Bloodgorged, The: 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.
Bloodgorged, The - Warband History: It is not known when the Khorne Daemonkin warband, The Bloodgorged were first formed, as their first blood-soaked campaign wasn't recorded until the early centuries of the current 41st Millennium. All must fear the fury of the Bloodgorged, and none more so than those who offer praise to Khorne's sibling rivals. The Bloodgorged see those who worship Nurgle, Tzeentch or Slaanesh as blinkered fools, whose misplaced faith cannot go unpunished. They further believe that there is no greater offering to Khorne than the violently obtained blood and skulls of those who worship his brothers. As the Bloodgorged prey upon the followers of the other Chaos Gods throughout the galaxy, Chaos Cultists labour in their name all across the galaxy, stamping out rival sects and preparing the way for Bloodgorged invasions. So cataclysmic has this warband's war of faith become, that their battles spill into settled areas of space. At such times the slaughter reaches new heights, surprised defenders scrambling to drive off the warring Chaos factions. The Bloodgorged revel in the gory mayhem of such conflicts, for only in such anarchic bloodbaths can Khorne truly be offered praise.
Bloodgorged, The - Servants of the Skullstar: To the galactic west of the Golgotha System located in the Segmentum Ultima, mired amid violently shifting Warp currents, the Skullstar hangs menacingly in the void. A furiously burning solar body of enormous size, this star is aptly named for it resembles nothing so much as an almighty, leering skull. Historically, voidfarers have steered well clear of this baleful phenomenon; quite besides the deadly empyric tides that surge around it, the Skullstar is said to drive men mad with hatred. Certainly, more than one ship has been lost to the murderous frenzy of bloodletting that the Skullstar inspires. To the Bloodgorged, the Skullstar is nothing less than a divine manifestation of Khorne's boundless wrath. Seeking to worship the baleful star, their warships long ago braved the Warp storms and landed hordes of Cultists and labourers upon the arid, radiation-ravaged worlds that hung in its orbit. Years on, those worlds have become fortified strongholds where vast, brazen idols of Khorne tower hundreds of feet over the barren deserts. Bloody altars rise from mountains of skulls, dark temples echo to harsh litanies of heretical worship, and all the while Daemons prowl under the searing light of the Skullstar that leers over them all.
Bloodgorged, The - Notable Campaigns: Red Saviours (183.M41) - The Bloodgorged board a fleet of Emperor's Children warships. After days of bloody deck-to-deck fighting, the Daemonkin are victorious. They scuttle the ships and depart, unaware that they have inadvertently saved the Imperial Hive World of Pyros.Into the Maelstrom (938.M41) - Leading a frenzied mass of lesser Daemonkin warbands, the Bloodgorged invade the Maelstrom. In a series of psychotic assaults, they cripple several of Huron Blackheart's outlying strongholds. Furious beyond words, the Tyrant of Badab turns the might of the Red Corsairs upon his aggressors. The war that follows lasts for long, bloody years.The Road to Hell (992.M41) - Inquisitor Bastapol Harg tracks a trail of murders back to a Khornate cult on Falchat. In eradicating the threat, Harg earns the ire of the Bloodgorged, to whom the cult paid fealty. The Daemonkin soon fall upon Falchat's hives and slaughter everyone they find, the Inquisitor included.One Hundred Skulls (997.M41) - Responding to a daemonic incursion on Hyraq II, a Brotherhood of Grey Knights plunges into battle. Crimson lightning tears the skies as the Grey Knights drive the Daemons back into the Warp, only to face fresh assault by the Bloodgorged. Retreating to a ruined temple, the surviving Grey Knights fight for their lives. In death, every Daemonkin they slay brings forth one of the Daemons the Grey Knights had already banished, until they are overrun by the screaming horde.Visions of Blood (999.M41) - Warmaster Abaddon's 13th Black Crusade bursts from the Eye of Terror and falls upon the Cadian Gate. At the same moment, across the galaxy, Khorne's Daemonkin are stricken by bloody visions of carnage. Compelled by the Blood God, the Daemonkin turn as one and begin to carve a bloody path toward the Cadian Gate.
Bloodgorged, The - Warband Colours: The Bloodgorged primarily wear brass coloured Power Armour and red edged in gunmetal. Their pauldrons (shoulder guards), poleyns (knee guards), greaves and sabatons (boots) are painted a crimson. They bear the warband's rune upon their left shoulder guard.
Bloodgorged, The - Warband Badge: The Bloodgorged's icon is an elongated rune of Khorne, and is usually displayed in black centred on a field of crimson.
Bloodgorged, The - Sources: Codex: Khorne Daemonkin (7th Edition), pp. 30, 32, 34-35, 110-114
Bloodletter - Bloodletter: A Bloodletter, also known as a "Chosen of Khorne," a "Warmonger of Khorne," "Slaughter-kin", "Taker of Skulls," "Khorne's Chosen," the "Teeth of Death," and the "Crimson Death," is a Lesser Daemon (Khak'akamshy'y in the Dark Tongue) that serves as one of the eager Daemonic foot soldiers of the Chaos God Khorne's Blood Legions. As a host, they march as one, in formations with supernatural precision, but in battle, they try to outdo each other in ruthless acts of cruelty and savagery.The Daemonic hordes of Khorne are largely made up of ferocious Bloodletters. These Lesser Daemons are deadly warriors, many of whom are believed by the worshippers of Chaos to have been foremost amongst the Blood God's followers in mortal life and whose will is as implacable and blood-hungry as that of Khorne himself.Sharp, needle-like teeth stud a Bloodletter's slavering jaws. Its serpentine tongue constantly flickers to taste the spilled blood of those it slays. Rippling muscles lie barely concealed beneath the Bloodletter's scaly red hide, knotted sinews that give the strength sufficient for its jet-black claws to pierce the most unyielding armour.  This might is guided by a killing instinct that surpasses that of mortal men. A Bloodletter is unburdened by any other thought or compulsion than to reap the lives of Khorne's foes and claim skulls in the name of its divine lord. They carry massive Warp-metal swords known as Hellblades, great two-handed weapons that cut effortlessly though any armour crafted by mortals.Bloodletters are Khorne's most numerous warriors, the mainstay of his Daemonic legions. Their horrific appearance is an assault upon mortal sensibilities. Their skin is the colour of hot blood, and their angry eyes resemble burning coals. Bloodletters are possessed of an inhuman strength; they can rip a mortal apart with cold-blooded ease, and in battle their long, jagged Hellblades glow with the heinous energies of the Warp. These vicious swords are said to be as sharp as Khorne's own hatred. As they cut through the flesh and bone of mortals, they become coated with the blood of the slain, glowing ever brighter as they kill, invigorated by the rich taste of death.Whilst Bloodletters are not the subtlest of creatures, they are not above subterfuge if it will lead to an even greater tally of skulls to offer the Blood God. However, where another daemon may flatter and ensnare a mortal victim to torture their soul within the Realm of Chaos in perpetuity, a Bloodletter only ever resorts to persuasion or lies in order to stab a foe in the back. Bloodletters seek the blood of mortals to offer at the foot of the Skull Throne of Khorne, ever hungry for fresh prey, ever willing to tear the warm flesh from their victims with their claws and smear the gore upon their curving horns in triumph and utter ecstasy.
Bloodletter - Bloodreaper: A Bloodreaper is a Bloodletter who has been chosen to lead a small unit of its fellows into combat. They are effectively the non-commissioned officers of Khorne's Blood Legions.
Bloodletter - Heralds of Khorne: Even among Bloodletters, some Daemons demonstrate an exceptionally profound talent for destruction, earning the recognition of the Lord of Blood and becoming Heralds of Khorne. These Daemons assume a leadership role among their kind. While usually less powerful than a Greater Daemon, they are justifiably regarded as a significant force to be reckoned with, even among their own kind. They are rampaging combat masters, more than capable of single-handedly taking down entire squads of lesser fighters in shows of martial skill and sheer savagery that only the best mortal warriors could hope to withstand.The Heralds of Khorne are the strongest of the Bloodletters who delight in decapitating their victims and plunging their wailing Hellblades into the beating hearts of their foes. However, their role in combat is to serve as the directors of their fellow Daemons' massacre of mortals, and to this end, these daemonic officers of the Khornate Blood Legions imbue their followers with a portion of their own eternal malice, heightening the inherent bloodlust of the daemonic and mortal minions of the Blood God to a fever pitch.Bloodletters are the most common Daemons to be specifically devoted to the service of the Blood God as Heralds of Khorne. This frequency should not be taken as a sign that their abilities are somehow lessened, as these creatures are pure manifestations of the Lord of Rage and are amongst the most brutal and devastating warriors in the galaxy. With every swing of their Hellblades, they spread bloodshed and devastation in the name of their dark master.
Bloodletter - Bloodcrushers: Only the strongest Bloodletters can hope to claim a Lesser Daemon of Khorne known as a Juggernaut as their mount. Such an undertaking is not for the weak, for a Bloodletter must drag forth its chosen mount from the Blood God's stockade and survive long enough to break the homicidal steed.Many an aspiring Daemon has leapt upon the back of an enraged Juggernaut, only to be thrown and crushed into an unrecognisable smear. However, once mastered, a Juggernaut becomes the most lethal of all war-mounts. Those who succeed become Bloodcrushers, daemonic knights of the Blood God, the resulting daemonic cavalry adding a new weapon to Khorne's arsenal. Bloodcrushers are feared for their almost unstoppable charges.They rush headlong into the thickest part of a battle, scattering opposition as pounding hooves pulverise those not quick enough to avoid the charge. Stunned enemies are relieved of the burden of their heads as the rider's black Hellblade comes crashing down through their necks. The resultant spray of arterial blood rains down into the crushed forms that lie beneath the Bloodcrushers' feet, creating rings of carnage that leave behind a battlefield dotted with crimson circles of suffering.
Bloodletter - Unit Composition: 9-19 Bloodletters1 Bloodreaper
Bloodletter - Notable Bloodletters: The Huntsman - The Huntsman is a hulking, savage Bloodletter and Herald of Khorne, notable for his fierce hatred of psykers, for only Khorne and some of his greatest champions despise the witch more. Whenever a particularly troublesome psyker crosses the Lord of War, the Huntsman is dispatched to visit the wrath of Khorne upon him. To assist the creature, Khorne has blessed it with a pack of fearsome Flesh Hounds that can track his quarry even through the Warp itself. Once the Huntsman marks a psyker as his prey, that wretched individual is doomed to be hounded by the Bloodletter champion and his pack for the rest of his days, as few as they may be.Kinslayer - Kinslayer is an infamous Bloodletter and Herald of Khorne. Even amongst other Bloodletters, Kinslayer demonstrates an exceptionally profound talent for destruction, earning the recognition of the Lord of Blood and becoming one of his Heralds. Kinslayer has become one of the most powerful Heralds active on the world of Crucible within the Screaming Vortex Warp rift. He engages in a never-ending quest to find opponents who have pledged to the other Ruinous Powers. This offers his followers an endless opportunity to utilise their rage to actively weaken the other Chaotic forces on Crucible. He deliberately herds vast numbers of mortal souls into the incipient battlefields as well, where they can share in the joy of combat through their agonising wounds. Some believe that Kinslayer receives additional blessings from the Lord of Rage for each daemon skull he presents to his master. Others watch his ascendency with baleful senses, trusting that those who have embraced one of the other Dark Gods have surely made Kinslayer a target for destruction.Skulltaker (U'Zuhl) - Skulltaker, also known as U'Zuhl, is an infamous Bloodletter Champion abd Bloodcrusher who has claimed a Juggernaut Daemonic Steed as his mount and has been anointed as the Blood God's own Sacred Executioner. It is said that when Khorne created U'Zuhl, the Bloodletter's first act was to chop the head from the first creature he met -- another Bloodletter. So began an existence of decapitation that has spread terror throughout the mortal and immortal universes. In the midst of battle, Skulltaker always seeks out the mightiest of the enemy's warriors. He fought alongside the Daemon Primarch Angron on Armageddon during the First War for Armageddon, felling a quarter of the Grey Knight Space Marines present. On Agripinia-6, Skulltaker slew the Ork Grimsnag Urk after butchering the Greenskin Warlord's armoured bodyguard. Seventeen Eldar Exarchs fell to his blade during the fighting at Haranshemash. Every race has its legends concerning the Skulltaker, and all are filled with terror.
Bloodletter - Wargear: Hellblade - Bloodletters wield these powerful Warp-forged daemonblades. On very rare occasions a mortal has bested one of these daemons and claimed this potent weapon. A jagged metal sword, blackened but edged with glowing red embers, a Hellblade is the physical manifestation of the sheer bloodlust of the user. Few mortals have the strength of will to wield such a weapon. However, the more blood it sheds, the more powerful it becomes, glowing with ever-stronger crimson hues as the blood flows.Collar of Khorne - Said to be forged from Khorne's own rage and hatred of all psykers, Collars of Khorne are gifted only to those that have given their lives to the Blood God. These brass collars, cruelly spiked and engraved with the sigils of the Blood God is worn around the neck. Each protects the wearer from cowardly sorcery or psychic powers, and once attached they can never be removed as long as the champion lives. On rare occasions a collar is stolen from a fallen warrior, and these unattached collars are highly desired by those who have not yet received Khorne's attention and attained one for themselves.
Bloodletter - Sources: Black Crusade: Core Rulebook (RPG), pp. 15, 166, 351-352Black Crusade: Tome of Blood (RPG), pp. 14, 86Codex: Chaos Daemons (8th Edition), pp. 38, 103Codex: Chaos Daemons (6th Edition), pp. 29, 32-34Codex: Chaos Daemons (4th Edition), pp. 32, 50, 60-61, 76, 80-81, 94, 97Codex Heretic Astartes - Chaos Space Marines (8th Edition), pp. 92, 129Deathwatch: Mark of the Xenos, pg. 109Liber Chaotica: Khorne, pp. 68-69Realms of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness (1st Edition), pg. 26Rogue Trader: The Navis Primer (RPG), pg. 139White Dwarf 368 (UK), pg. 4Space Marine (Game)
Bloodlords - Bloodlords: BloodlordsChaos Space MarinesLoyalistChapterSpace MarinesFoundingSpears of OlympusThey 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 Heretic Astartes dedicated to the service of Khorne known as the Bloodlords.
Bloodlords - Abyssal Crusade: Following the Ecclesiarchal Purges of 321.M37, a dozen star systems were engulfed by Warp Storm Dionys, its echoes rippling along the spiral arms of the galaxy as it raged through the Empyrean. Records of mutation and Chaos Cultist activity quadrupled overnight. Worse yet, it was not only the citizens who were affected by the sudden influx of Chaos. Many of the Space Marine Chapters with homeworlds affected by the Warp storm found that the secret imperfections in their gene-seed were writ large upon their new recruits, giving rise to a wave of disturbing manifestations both physical and psychological. The Spears of Olympus were one such Loyalist Chapter of the Adeptus Astartes that had been affected by these Warp storms.When the Ecclesiarchy heard of this sinister turn of events, Saint Basillius the Elder demanded that all those Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes whose homeworlds had been touched by the Warp storm be rendered unto his judgement. Such was the elder's influence with the High Lords of Terra that within a standard year this had come to pass. After a series of stringent tests and prognostications, hundreds of Chapters were deemed unaffected by the Warp storm. No less than thirty were found wanting.The Judged, as these fallen Chapters came to be known, volunteered for a redemptive Penitent Crusade. The most militant of their number demanded the right to purify their tainted flesh in the fires of battle, to make a noble end from tragic misfortune. To the surprise of his closest advisors, Saint Basillius agreed to this proposal. He saw it fitting to send the accused into the Eye of Terror, taking the fight for the Imperium's future to the Daemon Worlds inhabited by the Traitor Marines.A representative from each of the doomed Chapters held an emergency Council of Dismay to discuss the proposed crusade. After scant hours of debate, they acquiesced to Basillius' demands, for they believed that martyrdom was preferable to an existence of suspicion and doubt. The last few days of 321.M37 saw a solemn procession of strike cruisers and battle barges pass through the Cadian Gate into the Eye of Terror, relay systems dormant and heraldic colours obscured by black mag-plates.One by one, the Chapters of The Judged disappeared into the iridescent dust nebulae that surrounded the Eye. As the massive Space Marine flotilla entered the Eye of Terror, they were set upon by a massive Chaos warfleet. The resultant battle was so fierce that the ships of The Judged were forced to retreat and were scattered to the furthest corners of the Eye.Chapter after Chapter fell to the perils of the Eye, for the Abyssal Crusade had entered a hell from which very few emerge unchanged. The true account of what occurred within the Eye to the Spears of Olympus is unknown, but most of the tales of the Chapters of The Judged ended in tragedy and sorrow. By the time they reemerged from the Eye many standard centuries later, the Spears of Olympus were no more, for they had become the Chaos Space Marine warband known as the Bloodlords, wholly dedicated to the service of the Blood God Khorne.
Bloodlords - Notable Campaigns: Battle of Ixus IX (Unknown Date.M41) - On the ice moon of Ixus IX, the Bloodlords were unexpectedly caught in a trap set by the Necrons. The Boodlords had launched an assault on Ixus IX believing that their target was an Imperial prison facility. Instead, once within the structure they discovered that it was completely deserted of human life and instead was held by a force of Necron Warriors. Filled with bloodlust, the Warpsmith Navarch Ladon, captain of the Light Destroyer Bloodhammer, crashed his vessel into the frigid surface of the moon and unleashed the Lord of Skulls Daemon Engine he kept within the hold upon the undying Necrons.
Bloodlords - Notable Bloodlords: Sabaktes - Sabaktes is the Chaos Lord of the Bloodlords.Navarch Ladon - Navarch Ladon serves as a Warpsmith for the Bloodlords and captain of the Destroyer Bloodhammer. It was Ladon who unleashed a Daemon Engine called a Lord of Skulls upon a group of Necrons that his Bloodlords unexpectedly found already in command of the Imperial prison on the ice moon of Ixus IX.
Bloodlords - Warband Fleet: Bloodhammer (Unknown class) - DestroyerCrimson Hew (Unknown class) - Escort vesselFlesheater (Unknown class) - Escort vessel
Bloodlords - Warband Colours: The Bloodlords warband's colours are not listed in current Imperial records.
Bloodlords - Warband Badge: The Bloodlords warband's badge is not listed in current Imperial records.
Bloodstone - Bloodstone: A bloodstone is a type of blood-red gemstone native to the world of Baal that was used by the Blood Angels to decorate their wargear and other equipment. The gems are carefully extracted by hand from the deep caves of the Cruor Mountain on Baal.
Bloodstone (Drukhari) - Bloodstone (Drukhari): A Bloodstone is a powerful Drukhari weapon often mounted on an Incubus' Tormentor Helm. A Bloodstone is created from a broken Craftworld Aeldari Exarch's Spirit Stone that was claimed by the Incubus after they slew their target. When unleashed with a mental command, a Bloodstone can boil an enemy's blood with a pulse of potent psychic energy.
Bloodthirster - Bloodthirster: A Bloodthirster, also called a "Fist of Khorne," a "Guardian of the Throne," and a "Blooded One," is the Greater Daemon of Khorne, and each is a manifestation of the unreasoning rage and savagery of total war.It is said that there are no more powerful masters of battle in the entire galaxy than the Greater Daemons of the Blood God and that none may stand before them. They are the very essence of brutality, every blow ever struck and life ever taken in anger distilled into a single, towering form of iron and sinew.As the living embodiments of war, rage and murder, Bloodthirsters represent the bloodiest side of warfare and are renowned as the greatest warriors amongst Daemonkind. Only the boldest and most heroic of mortal champions would even stand the slimmest chance of survival in combat with a Bloodthirster, and an even smaller chance of victory.In appearance, Bloodthirsters are the embodiments of fear and terror long-expressed in the ancient Terran legends of Daemons that hungered for the souls of Mankind. Most of these creatures stand nearly ten metres tall, whilst the mightiest of their kind are the size of a Scout Titan. Their skin is the deep red of encrusted blood. Their gore-flecked hides are covered in crimson fur the colour of spilt blood and their eyes are milky white without visible iris or pupil.Their feet are cloven and the ground burns at their passing. Their bodies are impossibly muscled and covered in iron-tipped barbs. From their backs sprout a pair of gigantic, membranous, bat-like wings, enabling them to soar over the battlefield before diving into the fiercest and bloodiest areas of battle, striking at will.Most hideous of all are their faces, which are bestial, almost canine, the visage of Khorne's most favoured beings in the universe. Their snarling maws are filled with fangs the size of mortal swords.
Bloodthirster - Bloodthirster of Unfettered Fury: The most numerous of the Lord of Skull's Greater Daemons are the Bloodthirsters of Unfettered Fury. In one fist, these colossal, sulphur-wreathed fiends carry a massive Axe of Khorne, which can carve a battle-tank in two with a single swing.In its other hand, the Bloodthirster wields a vicious Lash of Khorne.Immense whips studded with brass spikes, these weapons slice through the air with a thunderous crack, breaking necks, entangling limbs, or driving on the Bloodletters and Flesh Hounds around them.
Bloodthirster - Bloodthirster of Insensate Rage: Bloodthirsters of Insensate Rage are the most mindlessly savage of their kind. The fires of Khorne's forge fill their chests, stoking their fury to a state of apoplexy that renders them utterly incoherent with anger.So great is their ire-fuelled strength that these Daemons are able to heft immense brass axes as tall as a fortress gate, and the cohorts of Khorne are driven into a frenzy in the wake of their furnace-hot fury. The arrival of such an entity on the battlefield heralds the coming of the end.
Bloodthirster - Wrath of Khorne Bloodthirster: Soaring through the skies on vast, leathery wings, Wrath of Khorne Bloodthirsters scour the battlefield for their prey.These arrogant huntsmen are charged by Khorne with a sacred duty -- humbling the mightiest heroes of the foe and butchering them in the name of the Lord of Battle.Breathing jets of hellfire, wielding a Bloodflail and monstrous Axe of Khorne, there is no greater champion of war.
Bloody Path - 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.
Bloody Path - Notable Campaigns: Diamor Campaign (999.M41) - The Diamor Campaign took place during Abaddon the Despoiler's 13th Black Crusade within the Diamor System. Initially led by the Chaos Lord Kranon the Relentless, his Renegade Chapter, known as the Crimson Slaughter, spearheaded the attack on the Imperial world of Amethal on behalf of Abaddon in order to obtain something the Despoiler desired. Due to the madness and unpredictability of Kranon, the execution of the invasion instead fell upon the Black Legion's Chaos Lord Xorphas. The Bloody Path would later join the monstrous Butcherhorde alliance, comprised of a coalition of multiple World Eaters warbands and led by the infamous Khârn the Betrayer. This Khornate host descended upon Amethal with but a single goal -- to take the heads of the most worthy and mightiest of the heroes of the defending Blood Angels. The resultant slaughter weakened the barrier between the Immaterium and the material realm to such an extent that the Blood Angels were forced to call for aid from the daemon-hunting Grey Knights Chapter.
Bloody Path - Warband Colours: The Bloody Path warband primarily wears mahogany (reddish-brown) colours, the colour of dried blood, on their battle-plate trimmed in brass, which denotes their allegiance to the Blood God Khorne. They also wear black gauntlets. Having waged a standard century-long war against the Orks of WAAAGH! Killstomp, the Bloody Path proclaim their victories with tassels the green of Ork flesh.
Bloody Path - Warband Badge: The Bloody Path warband's icon is reminiscent of their original Legion icon -- a world being devoured by a monstrous black maw, centred on a field of reddish-orange.
Bluddflagg - Bluddflagg: Bluddflagg, also known as Kaptin Bluddflagg, is an infamous Ork Freebooter Captain who has commanded his Ork pirate crew across the Korianis Sector in a savage display of destruction.He plundered the Aurelia Sub-sector for an unknown period of time during the Third Aurelian Crusade. Unlike most Ork Warbosses, Bluddflagg is not entirely motivated by the desire for a bigger WAAAGH!, but also by loot. This drove him to become a successful Freebooter, and provided him with the unusual ability for an Ork of choosing only those fights which he sees as the most profitable.
Bluddflagg - Crew: No Ork pirate is complete without a crew of bloodthirsty, crazed and dangerous Boyz at his beck and call. Bluddflagg was no exception to this rule. Apart from the multitude of unnamed Orks in his command, he did possess a few officers:Mista Nailbrain (First Mate and Mekboy)Spookums (Cabin Boy)Brikkfist (Nob)
Bluddflagg - Wargear: Uge' ChoppaShoota (Kustom)
Blue Scribes - Blue Scribes: The Blue Scribes, also known as the "Azure Arcanologists," the "Wandering Wizardkin" and "Tzeentch's Quaestors," are a pair of Blue Horrors named P'tarix and Xirat'p, created by their master, the Great Conspirator Tzeentch, to travel throughout the dimensions of reality to find and record every known spell and scrap of forbidden knowledge.They seek to recover these items, for contained within them is the essence of the power that Tzeentch lost many millennia ago when he was supreme amongst all of the other Dark Gods. If the Blue Scribes' quest ever proves successful, Tzeentch will regain his position as the most powerful being in all of Creation.
Blue Scribes - Wargear: Sharp quillsImprovised bladesDisc of Tzeentch (Dedicated transport)
Blue Scribes - Sources: Codex: Chaos Daemons (8th Edition), pp. 47, 92Codex: Chaos Daemons - Daemonic Incursion Edition (7th Edition), pg. 43Codex: Chaos Daemons (6th Edition), pg. 43Codex: Chaos Daemons (4th Edition), pg. 53Games Workshop Online Catalogue - Lords & Heroes: The Blue Scribes
Blueblood (Anthology Short Story) - Blueblood (Anthology Short Story): Blueblood is a short story published in the Gaunt's Ghosts series that was originally part of an anthology. Blueblood was published as part of the Sabbat Worlds anthology in October 2010, and was later re-published as a stand-alone e-book.
Blueblood (Anthology Short Story) - Synopsis: As the war in the Sabbat Worlds drags on, the Volpone Bluebloods -- an elite Astra Militarum unit known as much for their aristocratic disdain as their fury in battle -- find themselves encamped with several other regiments. Sabotage and mysterious deaths signal a Chaos taint in the camp, and the Bluebloods investigate. They must overcome their distaste for the primitive warriors around them and band together to find the source of the corruption before it damns them all.
Boarding Shield - Boarding Shield: A Boarding Shield is a large tower shield comprised of ceramite and plasteel, which contains a small field generator similar to that utilised in the smaller wrist-mounted Combat Shield. These bulky shields are favoured by Space Marine assault units for protection.During the confined close quarter fighting of void combat boarding operations, Boarding Shields allows these assault units to absorb the sustained incoming enemy fire that normally accompanies the first breach in a voidship's hull.Boarding Shields were also employed by Space Marines during siege operations following the first breach in the defenses of a static fortification, when the heavy intensity of incoming enemy fire at close quarters created a combat environment similar to that of a voidship boarding action.The Boarding Shield was most often used during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy by the Space Marine Legions' Breacher Siege Squads.
Boarding Shield - Sources: The Horus Heresy Book One: Betrayal (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, pp. 70, 72, 112, 132, 204, 236The Horus Heresy Book Two: Massacre (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, pp. 76, 99, 122The Horus Heresy Book Three: Extermination (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, pp. 69, 88, 269The Horus Heresy Book Five: Tempest (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, pp. 84, 86, 89, 110Forge World - Legion MK III Breacher Squad
Bodt - Bodt: The world of Bodt was the former fief world and Legiones Astartes training ground of the savage World Eaters Traitor Legion during the Great Crusade and early years of the Horus Heresy in the 30th and early 31st Millennia.Only a few short standard years following the Drop Site Massacre of Isstvan V in 008.M31, Bodt was attacked by an allied independent Loyalist force from the Shattered Legions, led by the infamous Iron Lord Autek Mor, leader of the Iron Hands Legion's notorious Morragul Clan Company, the so-called "Red Talons."After a savage battle, Mor was believed to have entered the subterranean macro-vaults of the city of Tredecimmia before scouring every trace of life from the surface. Bodt's supply line of initiates for the traitorous XIIth Legion was permanently severed as a result.
Bodt - Horus Heresy: Such was the state of the XIIth Legion fief world at the dawn of the great heresy, but it was a state soon to alter once more. In the aftermath of the Isstvan V slaughter, an event that Bodt's masters only learned of after the fact, a delegation of senior World Eaters Apothecaries, aided and advised by peers from the Emperor's Children and Word Bearers Legions, arrived there unannounced. They quickly assumed command of the induction facilities and instigated a series of revisions to the Legion's recruitment practices.It was long-established that the XIIth Legion's gene-seed implantation protocols sat at the extreme end of the spectrum of tolerance. There had been many calls from Terra and from other Legions to rein in these practices, but in the aftermath of the Drop Site Massacre and with the arrival of the new overlord cadre, all restraints were removed.It was said that the raw fuel for the new processes had been harvested from the blood-soaked killing fields of the Urgall Depression, ritually gathered up by the sons of Lorgar and alchemically-rendered down by the fell genius of the Emperor's Children. It was to the World Eaters Apothecaries that the final duty of implantation would fall, and the result was hideous indeed.Using the raw material of the gun-clanners, the Apothecaries created a new generation of recruits. Where the process of creating a warrior of the Legiones Astartes should have ordinarily been painstakingly undertaken over a period of standard years, this new generation was brought into being in only solar months.The process was shockingly wasteful and while many aspirants simply perished in the bio-vats, many more underwent catastrophic biological destabilisation, necessitating the purging of the implantation chambers by fire and radiation. Those few who survived fell far short of the trans-human ideal the Emperor had intended for the Legiones Astartes.Even for the World Eaters, these were monsters made flesh, their bodies swollen by forbidden processes and their brains flooded with burning autonomic stimulators that, in conjunction with the so-called "Butcher's Nails" cortex implants that were standard throughout the Legion, induced a permanent state of hyper-aggression.Furthermore, the flash-indoctrination protocols to which each aspirant was subjected invested him with the stolen memories of a hundred thousand kills, a flickering montage of other warriors' lives and deaths cycling through their consciousness in an eternal loop.From the moment each awoke from the gene-vats, the new Initiate believed himself a red-handed champion and a veteran of countless wars. His only desire was to shed blood -- his enemies' or his own -- in the name of his Primarch.
Bogg Da Freeboota King - Bogg Da Freeboota King: Bogg Da Freeboota King is an Ork Freebooter whose fleets are located in the Shattered Stars region of the galactic core to the east of the borders of the space of the Urani-Surtr Regulates of the Leagues of Votann. Bogg commands a seemingly endless empire of ragtag Greenskin pirates whose fleets make constant raids into URSR space.