Dreadnought - Notable Chaos Dreadnoughts: Amurael the Corrupted (Black Legion) - Amurael was the Chaos Champion who led a warband of the Black Legion until he was literally cut in two by a Khornate daemon. His shattered body was kept alive in a life support sarcophagus that was then implanted within a Dreadnought shell.Warsmith Berossus (Iron Warriors) - Berossus was an Iron Warriors Warsmith of the 2nd Grand Battalion. During the Battle of Phall he had the misfortune of bringing ill-favoured news to Perturabo, whose volatile moods had steadily worsened since the slaughters of Istvaan V. He had hoped his position as a Warsmith would keep him from harm, but it was to be a fool's hope, for Perturabo's rages fell on high kings and holy fools alike. On the orders of his Primarch, Berossus was eventually encased within the shell of a Chaos Dreadnought to be tormented across the centuries. Unlike most Chaos Dreadnoughts, Berossus is able to exercise his command because he has not been driven insane by his interment within a Dreadnought's armoured body. By the late 41st Millennium, on the Daemon World of Medrengard, Berossus and his fellow Warsmith Toramino were angered over Warsmith Honsou's refusal to share the Imperial Fists gene-seed that was stolen from Hydra Cordatus during the 13th Black Crusade, and so declared war against him. The aggressive Berossus had his Grand Company lay siege to Honsou's citadel, and though losses proved high (one thousand Astartes) he succeeded in breaching the citadel's walls. Facing Honsou in close-combat, Berossus nearly killed Honsou with a siege drill. Unfortunately, victory was torn from his grasp when Honsou's life was saved by his daemonic life-ward Onyx, who managed to breech Berossus' Dreadnought carapace. Honsou then reached inside the Dreadnought shell and ripped out its Mind Impulse Unit and pulped Berossus' head before all to see. Berossus' warband then defected to the service of Honsou shortly thereafter.Ancient Carrow, "The Reaper of Noval V" (Night Lords) - Ancient Carrow was a Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought who served in the 17th Company ("Lords of Tempest"). He was known to have favoured a brutal form of ritualised close combat inherited from the shredder-cults of Nostramo. He took part in the Drop Site Massacre on Isstvan V, gleefully reaping a heavy toll upon the Loyalist forces. It is not known if he survived into the modern 41st Millennium.Commander Demetrius (Violators) - Demetrius was a Chaos Dreadnought who led a large warband of Chaos Space Marines dedicated to Slaanesh under the banner of the Chaos Lord named Lady Charybdia, the Princess of Slaanesh, on the Daemon World of Torvendis.Eduhkar of the Annunake (Word Bearers) - During the Great Crusade, Eduhkar was widely lauded in Imperial battlegroup records for his heroism during the Sarapis Compliance against the monstrous Fra'al. As a result of irreparable wounds taken in the battles there, he was interred into a Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought frame. He willingly followed his Primarch into their descent into heresy and the worship of the Ruinous Powers. In the aftermath of the massacre on Istvaan V, Eduhkar's flame-scorched sarcophagus was found amongst the foothills of the Urgall Mountains, on the edge of the fighting where a small force of Salamanders had attempted to break through the encircling Traitors. His broken Dreadnought body was still locked in his final struggle with the ruins of a Salamanders Dreadnought, identified only by the legend "Dragon of Saraphis".Ancient Lhorgath (Death Guard) - Ancient Lhorgath was once the commander of the 14th Chapter, 2nd Great Company of the Death Guard Legion, a rank he reluctantly set aside upon being mortally wounded battling the Fane-Kings of Narbasi during an Imperial Compliance action. At the Isstvan V Drop Site Massacre, Ancient Lhorgath led his Dreadnought Talon in a fearsome counter-charge into the midst of the Salamanders Legion in the battle's bloody final hour; it is claimed Lhorgath was struck down by Vulkan himself in the desperate fighting. Lhorgath's Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought chassis was an exemplar of the prototypes of the type delivered to the Death Guard Legion's armouries which were subjected to numerous repairs and modifications by the Legion's Artificers.Magog the Damned (World Eaters) - Magog the Damned is a Chaos Dreadnought of the World Eaters Traitor Legion. Magog took part in the Battle of Ironholm during the 12th Black Crusade (Gothic War) of Abaddon the Despoiler.Captain Malcharion (Night Lords) - Malcharion was once the Captain of the Night Lords' 10th Company and was known to his fellow Astartes as the War-Sage. Malcharion sustained serious injuries and was entombed within a Dreadnought sarcophagus. He was awakened from his sleep by Talos the Soul Hunter to aid the 10th Company (now known as the warband of The Exalted) in a plot hatched by Abaddon the Despoiler of the Black Legion. Malcharion was later knocked back into hibernation while in combat with Raguel the Sufferer. Yet Raguel proved unable to slay Malcharion, and was ultimately killed by Talos. Malcharion could have still been brought back, but Talos ordered his fellow Night Lords to let him remain in dreamless hibernation as a boon, for he had done his duty. One of the Terminator veterans ordered Malcharion preserved, and he was reawakened months later to advise and participate in fending off the Eldar strike on Tsagualsa. Malcharion outlived the majority of his fellow Night Lords and all the Eldar ground forces, but suffered enough damage to vital parts that he would return to sleep shortly after the battle, as he wished to do.Mortis Metalikus (Crimson Slaughter) - Mortis Metalikus is the name given to a Helbrute of the Crimson Slaughter warband of Chaos Space Marines. Formerly known as Sevarion Kranon, he was the birth brother of Sevastus Kranon, the Chapter Master of the Crimson Sabres. Refusing to give into the bloodthirst that possessed his fellow Battle-Brothers during the massacre of Umidia, Sevarion was imprisoned by his brother for his disobedience. However the curse his entire Chapter came under from Khorne eventually drove this once noble soul completely mad during his confinement. Eventually, Sevarion was imprisoned within the cold cybernetic shell of a Helbrute. He is now consumed by murderous rage and grotesquely corrupted by the Ruinous Powers of Chaos.Ancient Reeve, "The Heedless" (Night Lords) - Ancient Reeve was once a Talon-master of the 8th Company of the Night Lords Legion, which at the time of the Drop Site Massacre on Istvaan V was known as the "Circle of Inclemency". Known originally as Klemen, he fell in battle against Eldar raiders, but through sheer bloody-mindedness survived even though his entire central nervous system had been disassembled before his very eyes. Having been interred within the armoured sarcophagus of a Contemptor Dreadnought, Reeve disavowed his command rank and devoted himself solely to the glory of battle. It is not known if he survived into the modern 41st Millennium.Ancient Sarancos (Emperor's Children) - Sarancos was a former champion of the 9th Millennial of the III Legion before being interred within the adamantium shell of a Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought. Sarancos was a part of Lord Commander Eidolon's Traitor command, and he is thought to have survived the Istvaan III Atrocity, although he became mentally unstable owing to a combination of battle damage and trauma.Ancient Skorrvall "Bitterblood" (Death Guard) - Skorrvall was the commander of the Death Guard's 7th Dreadnought Talon. Skorrvall was a native of Barbarus from that world's intake into the Death Guard Legion and was known as a darkly-tempered warrior and a survivor against the odds. Rising to the honoured rank of Standard Bearer of the 19th Chapter of the Death Guard Legion's 1st Great Company, he was mortally wounded in battle with the Eldar at Neverlight and interred in a Dreadnought frame. Fighting with the Traitors in Mortarion's Vanguard at Istvaan III, he killed indiscriminately during the "Veil of Grief" incident and was badly damaged by cannon-fire but survived to later take part in the Drop Site Massacre at Istvaan V. It is not known if he survived beyond the tragic events of the Horus Heresy.Styvath the Berzerker (World Eaters) - Styvath was a Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought of the World Eaters Legion who was barely controllable and subject to indiscriminate and savage bouts of rage thanks to the unpredictable interaction between his psycho-surgical implants and the Dreadnought's cybernetic control systems. Styvath was kept in a deep coma between battles. At Istvaan III he was unleashed by Drop Pod and rampaged across the battlefield, caring not who he killed. Beyond the tragic events of the Horus Heresy, it is not known if he survived into the late 41st Millennium.The Warmonger (Word Bearers) - The Warmonger was originally a Dark Apostle of the Word Bearers Legion named Sor Talgron who commanded the 34th Grand Company of the Word Bearers Traitor Legion. Talgron fought with his Legion during the Battle of Terra and laid siege to the Imperial Palace at the climax of the Horus Heresy, where he suffered the wounds that crippled him and required his interment within the armoured shell of a Chaos Dreadnought. As a result of the formidable willpower he developed as a Dark Apostle, The Warmonger also managed to retain at least a portion of his sanity following his internment within his Dreadnought's shell, but during combat he sometimes forgot where and when he was and began to relive moments from the siege of the Imperial Palace. The Warmonger was slain during the Battle of Boros Prime when he successfully killed the Necron Lord known as The Undying One, though the explosion following the Necron's death also finished off the already-wounded Dreadnought. The Warmonger's shell next housed the broken form of the daemonically-possessed Word Bearer named Burias Drak'Shal.