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Amendera Kendel - Appearance: Like her fellow Sisters of Silence, Amendera Kendel cut an impressive figure; she was lithe and poised, clad in a shimmering snakeskin over-suit of dense mail and a sweep of golden armour plate that resembled a bodice. She wore her purple-black coloured hair in a topknot from a seamless scalp, bare but for a blood-red tattoo of the Imperial Aquila.
Amendera Kendel - Wargear: Vratine Armour - When a Sister-aspirant takes her final oaths of duty and says the last words she will ever utter aloud in her lifetime, she is given her panoply of war: the Vratine Armour -- literally "the armour of the oath." It is a subpattern of technologically-advanced battlegear which shares design elements with both the power armour of the Legiones Astartes and the silicate-mesh of Selenite void-mail, though unlike either of those famed armours, it is not -- at least without additional gearing -- fully environmentally sealed or designed for extended operations. It does, however, provide formidable protection from ballistic impacts and directed energy weapons, and is tailored and forged uniquely to its intended wearer to allow for their complete freedom of movement and to augment their reaction speed.Voidsheen Cloak - The Voidsheen Cloaks worn by the Oblivion Knights of the Sisters of Silence are made from micro-vitrious mesh designed to diffract and absorb energy.Execution Blade - In addition to their role as witch-seekers and stern guardians of the tithe of the psyker-born, the Sisters of Silence also serve as remorseless executioners when the need arises, with the time-honoured method of beheading before immolation their preferred agency of final sanction. To this end they often carry unique, finely-wrought two-handed blades, forged to the same exacting standards of the ancient Charnabal Sabres favoured for duelling among the Terran Courts, which are edged in diamond-hard silica glass, making for a wickedly-sharp cutting edge. A skilled strike from one of these weapons can part the seals of the finest armour in battle just as easily as it parts the head from the shoulders of the condemned.Bolt PistolFrag GrenadesKrak GrenadesPsyk-Out Grenades
Amendera Kendel - Optional Wargear: Power AxeProteus Neuro-Lash - Fashioned in the shape of baroque multi-headed flails or ornate three-sectioned staves, the Proteus neuro-lashes are relics of the Age of Strife used by the most skilled warriors among the ranks of the Silent Sisters to subdue large numbers of assailants at once. The neural prongs that adorn the weapons generate a phase-conducted shock field which works to overload a victim's nervous system with bursts of intense agony, so that even the slightest touch leaves them helpless.Hand FlamerNeedle PistolPlasma Pistol
Amenophis IV - Amenophis IV: Amenophis IVJericho ReachT'auHumanGreater GoodFurthermore, the T'au fear that should the Human population of Amenophis IV discover the existence of the Imperium of Man it may attempt to join the wars of the Greyhell Front.The T'au believe (quite wrongly) that should the Imperium discover the Human society on the world, it will welcome its lost kin into the fold and utilise their strength against the T'au.The population of Amenophis IV have been declared beyond the Greater Good because they are entirely under the control of some form of machine intelligence, which they worship as a creator-deity.
Amenophis IV - History: Long ago, the people of Amenophis IV discovered a fragment of lost Standard Template Construct technology and having utilised its knowledge to build an advanced meta-cogitation array, immediately fell under its control.Upon achieving sentience, the machine, called simply "the Array" by its subjects, immediately set about systematically and jealously purging all knowledge of the Emperor, Terra, the Imperium and the Imperial Creed.The people of Amenophis IV came to believe that they were the sole examples of their species, indeed of intelligent life, in the universe and that the Array was their beneficent creator.When the T'au came to Amenophis IV, their very existence challenged the world view propagated for so long by the Array. The machine intelligence ordered its subjects to repel the T'au using weaponry resurrected from long before the Age of the Imperium, and having done so removed all memories of the aliens' existence from its subjects' minds.The armies of Amenophis IV proved the equal of the T'au forces sent to oppose them, and a stalemate has since developed. Elements within the Earth Caste would very much like to recover and examine some of the weaponry utilised by the Array's forces, while other, more cautious voices call for no contact to be attempted at all.One faction within the Fire Caste has voiced the belief that the Array and all its followers should be destroyed by heavy planetary bombardment before it develops the capability to launch warships into space and challenge the T'au Empire's control of the region.
Amnaich - Amnaich: Amnaich, known as "Amnaich the Golden" and the "Lord of Hosts," is a powerful Keeper of Secrets, a Greater Daemon of Slaanesh. Amnaich was considered to have been granted the most perfect form ever visited by the Dark Prince upon one of its Daemons.Amnaich was among the Daemons summoned by the Thousand Sons during the Siege of Terra to assault the bastions surrounding the Lion's Gate of the Imperial Palace.  Amnaich and the other Daemons were ultimately defeated by the Loyalist defenders and banished back into the Warp.Later, in the 39th Millennium, Amnaich sought to prey upon the Human-settled worlds of the Golwyn Belt, a distant star system that lay outside of Imperial space.The Daemon founded a new religion with itself as the deity known as Amnaich the Golden. It promised its followers that on the turn of the millennium, if they committed mass suicide, it would take them to a heavenly new "promised land."In truth, the Daemon intended to use the mass suicide of billions of souls in its name to rip open a Warp rift that would cast the entire star system into the Immaterium where it would feed upon its former worshippers for eternity.But the growing strength of the Daemon was detected in the Warp by Imperial astropaths. The Inquisition dispatched an Imperial fleet which conducted an orbital bombardment of the planets of the Golwyn Belt at the exact moment that Amnaich's followers began the mass-suicide ritual.As the Daemon had dispersed its essence into hundreds of golden idols of itself to receive its worshippers' souls, the destruction of those idols in the Imperial bombardment disrupted the ritual, destroying both Amnaich and all those of its followers who had been engaged in the ceremony.In the wake of the assault, the survivors of the Golwyn Belt were incorporated into the Imperium and reeducated in the Imperial Creed by the Ecclesiarchy. By the 41st Millennium the people of the Golwyn Belt were staunch supporters of the God-Emperor and contributed many elite regiments to the Astra Militarum.
Amnaich - Siege of Terra: Amnaich was among the many Greater Daemons summoned by the sorcerers of the Thousand Sons Traitor Legion into realspace on the Throneworld during the Siege of Terra to assault the Imperial Palace.After the Outer Palace's Lion's Gate Spaceport fell to the Traitor forces, the Thousand Sons summoned the daemonic legions to assault the Colossi Gate, a bastion guarding the northern approach to the Lion's Gate from the Lion's Gate Spaceport.While they succeeded in tearing down the outer defences of Colossi, the Daemons, including Amnaich, were banished back to the Warp by the efforts of the White Scars' Stormseers and the Custodians of the Legio Custodes before they were able to completely penetrate the bastion.
Amnaich - Imperial Response: Needless to say, such a burgeoning presence in the Warp had not gone unnoticed by Imperial astropaths, despite the remote location of the Golwyn Belt outside Imperial space.An investigation was launched by the most talented psykers in the Inquisition and the nature of the threat posed by Amnaich was finally realised. An Imperial fleet of then-unprecedented scale was despatched toward the distant star system.In the days preceding the millennial celebrations, Amnaich undertook a great ritual that allowed it to fragment its consciousness into countless parts, instilling a piece of itself into each of the golden titans at the heart of its disciples' cities.As its minions ended their lives at the feet of these mighty icons, their souls would flow into each statue, granting Amnaich existence within hundreds of these mighty forms.With these he would achieve indestructibility, an army of golden titans forged in his own image, feasting from his captive populations in a reign of terror that was to last till the end of time.On the eve of the millennial celebrations, Amnaich's plans were in place, and it seemed nothing could stop its ascension to godhood. Around each of the golden titans of the Daemon were gathcrcd millions of the faithful, chanting Amnaich's name in unison aod debasing themselves as they prepared to sacrifice themselves to its glory.Amnaich's consciousness filtered into the statues as its vile ritual reached its climax, ready to gorge on the departing souls of its billions of disciples.But the Imperial fleet had wasted no time. Such was the sheer size of the golden idols that they could be detected from orbit, and above every one was an Imperial warship.At a prearranged signal, each of these craft launched a lance strike upon the exact locale of the golden colossi. Each of the sacrilegious structures was blown apart in an instant, the explosion killing every one of those faithful to Amnaich's false religion.Only those few who had not bowed to Amnaich's epic religious conversion of the Golwyn Belt remained alive. At a stroke, the Imperial fleet had not only obliterated Amnaich for eternity but also selectively destroyed virtually every adherent to its faith.The dawn of the 40th Millennium did indeed see a new world order as the servants of the Ecclesiarchy were dispatched en masse to convert the confused and frightened survivors of the Golwyn Belt to the Imperial Creed. After such a potent display of force none dared question the might of the God-Emperor.In the 41st Millennium, the elite Astra Militarum regiments of the Golwyn Strike Corps number well over 200, and the system's planetary tithes regularly exceed even the most stringent demands of the Administratum.
Amon - Amon: Amon  was a sorcerer who served as a tutor to the Primarch Magnus the Red, before the arrival of the Thousand Sons Space Marine Legion on the world of Prospero during the Great Crusade of the late 30th Millennium.He later rose to become the leader or "magister templi" of the Corvidae cult of precognitives and captain of the 9th Fellowship of the Thousand Sons Legion.Amon was a figure whose repute was known well beyond his Legion during the time of the Great Crusade, for he often served both as his primarch's equerry and as emissary to both other Space Marine Legions and the Imperium's circles of power, yet he remained a solitary and mysterious figure, even to his Legion brothers.It was said of Amon that he had served as Magnus' tutor once, before the coming of the Emperor to Prospero, though the student soon far outstripped the master.If true then it is likely that he survived the conversion process to become an Astartes as an adult, perhaps aided by the Crimson King's direct intervention, and emerged as both a potent warrior and powerful psyker.Most of his career beyond his public duties remained in shadow and it is believed that he was in fact master of his Legion's intelligence gathering organisation, known as the "Hidden Ones" and also ranked high within the chambers of the Legion's Order of Blindness.As a potent psyker, Amon became the founder of the XV Legion's Corvidae Cult and its first Magister Templi. He also served as Equerry to Magnus, responsible for the primarch's security and for officiating certain sorcerous rituals, amongst other duties.Amon's fate was to see him survive the Battle of Prospero an embittered and wounded figure, who became increasingly isolated from his one-time peers and master.He would go on to survive the bloody wars of the Horus Heresy as well, eventually becoming a member of the Cabal of Ahriman and vanishing from recorded history after Ahriman's exile from the XV Legion.However, Amon eventually turned on Ahriman in an attempt to undo the great Rubric he had cast. Ahriman gained the upper hand and used his sorcery to reduce Amon's body to dust.
Amon - Reunification: Approximately five standard years after the XV Legion of the Legiones Astartes began the Great Crusade to reclaim and reunify the Human-settled galaxy, these Astartes began to manifest unusually powerful psychic abilities, which was a welcome development for these Space Marines as they sought to further emulate the Emperor.This development was reluctantly tolerated by the Emperor, who was greatly wary of psychic abilities wielded by anyone other than Himself or Malcador the Sigillite, because the XV Legion's abilities proved to be a powerful weapon for the Imperium during the Great Crusade.Throughout that long campaign, the XV Legion made extensive use of sorcerers, and their Warp-derived powers would leave whole populations in thrall to their will rather than carrying out a planetary conquest through a costly full frontal assault like the other Space Marine Legions. This tactic earned the ire of the Primarch Leman Russ of the Space Wolves Legion who saw anything less then a frontal assault as dishonourable and cowardly.Soon, the XV Legion's joy at their psychic gifts turned to revulsion and horror as a wave of ghastly, degenerative mutations began to affect large portions of the battle-brothers of the XV Legion.These mutagenic changes were called the "flesh-change" by the Legionaries, and were much feared, as the spiral of degenerative mutation ultimately reduced a proud XV Legion Astartes into a mindless mutant abomination that would later be recognised by the Imperium as a gibbering Chaos Spawn.The majority of those afflicted by the flesh-change were put into stasis by the Legion in the hope that someday in the future a cure would be able to be found to reverse the onset of these crippling mutations. The number of active Astartes within the XV Legion soon began to dwindle to dangerously low levels as a result of the ravages of the Flesh-Change.Fortunately, for the XV Legion the Emperor's Great Crusade finally arrived at the isolated world of Prospero and the Thousand Sons were reunited with their Primarch Magnus. The flesh-change had become a pandemic at this point, but the entire Legion was transported to the newly discovered world to meet their gene-father.After the initial reunion with one of His lost sons and the celebrations that followed, the Emperor and the vast majority of the Great Crusade's large fleet departed Prospero, leaving the XVth Legion behind. By then the rampant mutations within the Legion had spontaneously gone out of control after the departure of the Emperor.The Thousand Sons Primarch Magnus intervened to save his genetic children, and through mysterious means in dealing with the Warp was able to save those that had been the least affected by the rampant mutations, though at the cost of one of his eyes. In the end, the XV Legion only numbered a thousand battle-brothers that had managed to be saved by their primarch.
Amon - Great Crusade: Following their reunification with their gene-sire and the stabilisation of their gene-seed, the newly renamed Thousand Sons Legion began the arduous process of replenishing their diminished ranks with potential initiates from the people of Prospero. Amon was one of the first Prosperine neophytes inducted into the Thousand Sons Legion at the direct invitation of Magnus.The rest of Amon's early career as a Legionary is not well known, for when he next appeared in recorded history during the closing days of the Great Crusade, he had already ceded his role as magister templi of the Corvidae Cult to the Terran-born Ahzek Ahriman.Amon had quickly risen to the esteemed rank of 9th Fellowship captain and served as the primarch's Equerry, his duty to attend upon his primarch's every need. Parts of his past may have been deliberately hidden, for Amon was a master of deception and subterfuge, having served as the Master of the Hidden Ones. It was said that amongst the members of the Thousand Sons, even the powerful psychic might of the Chief Librarian Ahriman was useless in detecting Amon's presence with either his mindsight or true sight.The so-called Hidden Ones were a specialist unit of the Thousand Sons that served as the Legion's Scout Auxilia. Imperial historical accounts show that there is the distinct possibility that these specialised reconnaissance troops served a far more sinister role for the XV Legion that was more akin to espionage agents than a unit of typical Scout Marines composed of Astartes neophytes engaged in reconnaissance-in-force and combat infiltration missions. However, the Hidden Ones also carried out those types of missions.As his primarch's Equerry, Amon served as counterpoint and foil for his master's decisions. As few Astartes would ever dare show hesitation or speak against one of the very sons of the Emperor, Magnus saw the wisdom of keeping one such bold individual at hand, a kinsman whose words of caution or alternate viewpoints could be more valuable than a thousand warriors once in the field.Amon's duties also included maintaining the personal security of Magnus, especially within his private sanctum where the Rehati, the inner coven of advisors and trusted confidants of Magnus the Red, would gather. The Rehati were drawn from the ranks of the elite captains of the Thousand Sons' Fellowships (companies).
Amon - Appearance and Personality: Amon was said to possess close-cropped grey hair, with skin that had the appearance and colour of old vellum. Amon was described as a quiet, private fellow, not easily given to company. Like many such solitary men, he was a poet and deeply interested in the hidden nature of things.When Ahriman sought to undo the "flesh change" that ravaged his fellow battle-brothers after their escape during the Burning of Prospero, he formed a cabal, and they began their work hidden from the eye of Magnus. Amongst the conspirators had been the most powerful psykers in an entire Legion of warlocks.Once considered one of the most loyal of Magnus' sons, Amon had been the hardest to persuade to join Ahriman's cabal, the most doubting, the one most loyal to the primarch besides Ahriman. He followed Ahriman, believing in him and allowing himself to dream as he did. That trust bought him the destruction of everything he held dearest.He had burned his hopes because he had trusted the former Chief Librarian. Though the Rubric of Ahriman could not be undone, Amon became convinced that the only way to save their Legion was to end it -- a quest that ultimately led to his death and the absorption of his powers by his former brother and bitterest enemy -- Ahriman.Amon gained new armour after his exile. It was said he had a horned helm and blue robes. Ahriman took this armour after Amon's death so the armour worn by Ahriman during his exile from Sortiarius originally belonged to Amon.
Amon - Powers and Abilities: Amon's precognitive psychic abilities developed at a young age, although they manifested as dreams rather than conscious visions. Amon's first precognitive vision occurred before Magnus had come to Prospero in the form of a recurring nightmare.He had dreamt that everything he held dear was swept away and destroyed. It plagued him for years, but on the day the infant primarch had arrived from the heavens like a comet, the dream stopped. He never had it again.Amon convinced himself that it was nothing more than an ancestral memory of Old Night, but tragically, this was not the case. Only on the eve of his homeworld's destruction did he later realise that he had forseen the Burning of Prospero.Amon was the master of his Legion's external intelligence network, many of whom, thanks to the Thousand Sons' ability to twist the minds and manipulate the memories of others through their psychic powers, didn't even known whom they truly served. Such hidden servants and the scryings and divinations of Amon and his adjutants could be exploited to force an enemy's plans to become known and manoeuvres to be anticipated.Amon was also a master of deception and subterfuge, having served as the Master of the Legion Auxilia known as the Hidden Ones. It was said that amongst the members of the Thousand Sons, even the powerful psychic might of Chief Librarian Ahriman was useless in detecting Amon's presence with either his mindsight or true sight.
Amon - Wargear: Armour of Shades - Woven into the fabric of Amon's suit of Artificer Armour were layers upon layers of psychically-charged glyphs and wave forms designed to augment Amon's own abilities to pass unseen, or even appear as another when he wished. This armour was later radically altered in design and aesthetics after Amon's fall to Chaos and was later claimed by Ahriman after he slew the elder sorcerer.Master-Crafted Force SwordArchaeotech PistolDust of the Devourers - Kept within the concealed chamber of a reliquary staff, Amon carried the dust-like remains of slain Psychneuein mind-parasites. These Warp-born predators afflicted thankfully few worlds, but Prospero was one. The hungering psychic essence of these creatures was bound like a murderous echo to their dust, and it was in Amon's power to invoke it with lethal results.Arcane Litanies - The bearer of Arcane Litanies was protected from the powers of the Warp and the denizens that dwelled within.Frag GrenadesKrak Grenades
Amon - Canon Conflict: In the novel A Thousand Sons, Amon is said to be the tutor of the adolescent Primarch Magnus, before the arrival of the Emperor and the Astartes of the XV Legion on Prospero.This heavily implies that Amon was already a full grown man at this time, and would therefore not have been eligible for the full array of required genetic enhancements, gene-seed implantation and the additional organ transplants required to become a full-fledged, transhuman Space Marine warrior.It is thus highly probable that Amon, like Kor Phaeron of the Word Bearers Legion and Luther of the Dark Angels, instead received advanced Imperial rejuvenat treatments and limited gene-forging to make him exalted above normal Humans, but not a true Astartes. This is not currently stated anywhere within the novel or other canon sources.
Amon - Trivia: Also spelled Amun, Amen, or Ammon, Amon was originally a local deity of the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes on Old Earth. He was attested to have been worshipped by Egyptians since the Old Kingdom period of the early 3rd Millennium BC together with his spouse Amaunet. At the inception of the 11th Dynasty (ca. 21st century BC), he rose to the position of patron deity of Thebes.After the rebellion of Thebes against the Semitic invaders and conquerors of Egypt known as the Hyksos and with the rule of the Pharaoh Ahmose I, Amun acquired national importance, expressed in his fusion with the sun god, Ra, as Amun-Ra.Amun-Ra retained chief importance in the Egyptian pantheon throughout the New Kingdom period (with the exception of the "Atenist heresy" under Akhenaten). Amun-Ra in this period (16th to 11th Centuries BC) held the position of transcendental, self-created creator deity "par excellence", and he was the champion of the poor or troubled and central to personal piety in ancient Egypt.Amun-Ra's position as King of the Gods developed to the point of virtual monotheism where other gods became simply manifestations of him. With Osiris, Amun-Ra is the most widely recorded of the Egyptian gods in later cultural periods. As the chief deity of the Egyptian Empire of the New Kingdom period, Amun-Ra also came to be worshipped outside of Egypt, in Ancient Libya and Nubia, and in the incarnation of Zeus-Ammon came to be identified with Zeus, the chief deity of the Olympians, in Ancient Greece.Amon, spelled Aamon, is also a Goetic demon and a Marquis of Hell who governs forty infernal legions in Judeo-Christian demonology. He bears the head of a raven and is able to foresee the future.
Amon Harakht - Amon Harakht: The Phoenix Lord of the Asuryani Eagle Pilots is Amon Harakht, a term in the Aeldari Lexicon that literally translates into Low Gothic as "fighter pilot."Little else is known about this Phoenix Lord other than that he founded the Eagle Pilots Aspect.
Amon Tauromachian - Amon Tauromachian: Amon Tauromachian was a member of the first circle of the Legio Custodes during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy in the 30th and early 31st Millennia. During his long career, he was present at many notable events of the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy, and would be recognised as one of the greatest of the Custodians.
Amon Tauromachian - Name Etymology: Like all members of the Legio Custodes, Amon's name was formally awarded for each successfully completed assignment, deeds of valour earned in combat or earned after contemplation of the mysteries.As they live far longer than mortal men, Custodians could accumulate a long list of names during their lifetime. Listed below are (as far as can be ascertained) all the known names earned by Amon Tauromachian:Amon - His forename. Possibly his birth name.Tauromachian - Not a family name, but one that at least described the occupation of the bloodline that had provided Amon's gene-source.Xigaze - The site of Amon's organic birth.Lepron - The house of his formative study.Cairn Hedrossa - The place where he was first tutored in weapon use.Eleven More NamesPyrope - Seventeen words into his nomenclature sequence, this name remembered his first live combat, deployed on an orbital station of Terra of that name.Several more namesLeng - This name was awarded in the early years of the Horus Heresy to recognise Amon's feat in a Blood Game. Leng was the place on Terra where he attempted to strike his target.Longinus - Longinus was the name awarded by Malcador the Sigillite during the Siege of Terra, for Amon's efforts in seeking out a Nurglish plague that had manifested among the followers of the Lectitio Divinitatus in the precincts of the Imperial Palace itself.
Amontep II - Amontep II: Amontep IIImperialForge WorldMarsArchmagos DominusBelisarius CawlblackstoneGreat RiftMagos DominusDentrex OlogostionSkitariiKnights ArmigerWhen the Adeptus Mechanicus expeditionary force arrived at a large dust bowl near the Vrackian Megacomplex, they discovered in the course of their excavations that the blackstone was part of ancient Necron ruins -- Amontep II was actually a Tomb World of the lost Necron Empire. Their actions awakened the sleeping Necrons who assaulted the Mechanicus troops.At the same time, what the servants of the Machine God had assumed to be ancient ruins were soon revealed following their activation to be fully functional Necron Obelisks. Recognising that his forces were overwhelmed, Ologostion focused instead on seizing a sample of blackstone for Cawl from the existing Necron structures constructed from the material and then escaped off-world.The Mechanicus vessels in orbit of Amontep II unleashed their firepower on the Necron structures near the Vrackian dust bowl, destroying them utterly. Bu the narrow victory won by the Adeptus Mechanicus over their Necron competitors for blackstone would bear a terrible cost -- with its noctilith structures lost or damaged, Amontep II was left vulnerable to Warp incursions. Soon after the battle, in the skies high above its desert surface, a livid yellow Warp rift began to shimmer, whirl and grow ever larger...
An'ggrath the Unbound - An'ggrath the Unbound: An'ggrath the Unbound, also known as the "Guardian of the Throne of Skulls," "Most Favoured of Khorne," "Lord of Bloodthirsters" and the "Deathbringer," is the greatest of the Bloodthirsters, one of the Greater Daemons of Khorne.He was most recently banished from the material realm during the Siege of Vraks in 830.M41.
An'ggrath the Unbound - History: An'ggrath the Unbound, the mightiest of the Bloodthirsters, is the most favoured servant of the Blood God Khorne. In the pantheon of the Blood God's servants, An'ggrath stands next to the Skull Throne at Khorne's right hand.Amongst the ranks of Khorne's daemonic followers, An'ggrath is perhaps the greatest and most revered, created by his patron Chaos God to be the ultimate expression of murder and violence, extolling Khorne's blood creed across the width and breadth of the galaxy. No one can stand against him and hope to live.An'ggrath has been Khorne's most favoured servant since Tzeentch inspired Khorne's then favoured slaughterer, the Bloodthirster known as Skarbrand, to strike at his own master. Skarbrand was cast out from Khorne's realm and exiled for all eternity, and An'ggrath was raised up as Khorne's most favoured son.Though the two Bloodthirsters are eternal foes, Khorne has decreed that the two can never meet in battle, for their value as slaughterers is too great to be wasted upon each other.The Lord of Bloodthirsters is rightly feared throughout the galaxy, even amongst the Inquisitors of the Ordo Malleus and within the ranks of the Grey Knights Space Marine Chapter. His name is only ever whispered in trepidation, for An'ggrath invokes dread amongst even the mightiest of the Emperor of Mankind's servants.Fortunately, An'ggrath has been summoned forth from the Immaterium on only two occasions within the past 10,000 Terran years, for few would ever be so bold as to attempt to summon the vile Greater Daemon forth, for to do so is to risk the Blood God's terrible wrath. One must first have pleased Khorne with their bloody devotion to murder and slaughter.On the two occasions he was successfully summoned into the material realm, his appearance resulted in terrible destruction to the Imperium. Only after terrible losses were the Grey Knights able to stop the Bloodthirster's rampage.On the Imperial world of Vraks Prime during the height of the Siege of Vraks campaign in 830.M41, the mighty Chaos Lord, Zhufor the Impaler, tempted his patron god's wrath. With the aid of the daemonmancers of The Sanctified, the long carnage of the brutal Vraksian campaign drew forth An'ggrath and his daemonic legions to the material world through a portal into the Warp.Only when Inquisitor Lord Hector Rex confronted the Bloodthirster in single combat, wielding a holy sword forged to destroy such loathsome daemon-lords, was An'ggrath stopped before Vraks was turned into a charnel house.
An'ggrath the Unbound - Canon Conflict: While An'ggrath is called in Imperial Armour Volume 7 - The Siege of Vraks - Part Three the greatest of the Bloodthirsters, in the Gathering Storm series, Skarbrand the Exiled One is considered the mightiest of the Greater Daemons of Khorne.
An'kha'arak - An'kha'arak: An'kha'arak is a Greater Daemon of the Blood God Khorne, known as a Bloodthirster. An'kha'arak led a Chaos incursion on the Imperial world of Toreus in 579.M41 which he conquered and ruled for 300 Terran years as a Daemon World before the grip of the Warp upon this corner of reality weakened and he was drawn back into the Empyrean.
An'kha'arak - History: The only known record of the vile daemon lord known as An'kha'arak is during a large Chaos incursion that occurred in 579.M41 upon the damned Imperial world of Toreus. The doomed planet was engulfed and cut off by a prodigious Warp Storm for 300 standard years, and when it was finally rediscovered by the forces of the Imperium the planet had been utterly transformed into a daemonic visage straight out of the ancient human legends of Hell.As the world fell to Chaos all around them, the soldiers of Toreus fought valiantly against rampaging hordes of daemons. When war raged on the flanks of Toreus' highest volcano, Mount Magathon, a legion of the Blood God's daemonic followers, led by the Bloodthirster An'kha'arak, butchered 50,000 Imperial servants.The large blood sacrifice was very pleasing to Khorne and he decided to grant Toreus to An'kha'arak as his own personal demense. From the rocky ground, great skull-like caves burst forth and from their maws rivers of molten lava poured down upon the beleaguered defenders. Bloodletters heaped the skulls of the slain into towering piles as crimson smog filled the darkened skies.From the volcano's summit, twisted spires of towering bone were wrought in the shape of dismembered corpses. The plains around Mount Magathon were engulfed by fire and blood, turning the once pristine farms and towns into gore-drenched cinders. Sitting upon a throne made of brass, An'kha'arak surveyed his new kingdom of blood as the flames roared from the volcano's peak. Eventually, the daemon's tenuous hold on reality weakened as the Warp rift began to falter after three centuries.Eventually the rift closed and the daemons vanished from the mortal plane, leaving a world forever changed beyond human comprehension. The Inquisition moved in to investigate the lost planet when it reemerged from the Warp rift in 879.M41. In a rare moment of mercy, Inquisitor Thrax ordered an immediate Exterminatus action upon the Daemon World, obliterating any vestige of twisted life that might have survived.
Anakatis Kul Blade-Slave - Anakatis Kul Blade-Slave: An Anakatis Kul Blade-Slave was a specialist formation of individual warriors of the Word Bearers Traitor Legion that served the will of their dark master, Zardu Layak, the Crimson Apostle of the Chapter of the Unspeaking, during the Horus Heresy in the early 31st Millennium.Following the Word Bearers Legion's chastisement and humiliation at the hands of the Emperor and the Ultramarines Legion at Monarchia, many within the Word Bearers' ranks felt powerless and cast adrift.Within some individuals, this ignited a hunger that could not be denied. Zardu Layak preyed upon such Astartes, bestowing baleful gifts upon those whose ambition and hubris outweighed their caution.These followers became the Anakatis Kul Blade-Slaves -- loyal servants of the Crimson Apostle -- whose bodies became unnaturally warped and contorted and possessed of great strength.Wielding the Anakatis Blades, gifts bestowed upon them by Layak and weapons of unholy xenos influence and malevolent power, they cut a swathe through their master's foes in a barely controlled hunger for slaughter.
Anakatis Kul Blade-Slave - History: There were always those who hungered for power beyond their appointed measure, even amongst the Space Marine Legions long before the dark days of the Horus Heresy. After their humiliation and censure by the Emperor and the Ultramarines, this became doubly so within the Word Bearers Legion as the sting of their fall left many within their ranks feeling powerless and cast adrift from the bedrock of their beliefs.For the XVII Legion as a whole this would mark the start of a perilous path. For some within its ranks, it ignited a hunger that could not be denied. It was on such morbid cravings that Zardu Layak, the Crimson Apostle of the Chapter of the Unspeaking, preyed, with baleful gifts in mind to bestow on those whose ambition outweighed their caution, and whose hubris overwhelmed their fear.These gifts were the Anakatis Blades, dark relics of the time before Mankind, weapons which must be ritually given and freely accepted to work their doom, for they promise unearthly might to any warrior who grasps them, but only if that warrior's spirit and will are strong enough to master the beast within the blade. But this never happened, for Zardu Layak made sure that none he chose to wield the blades was every strong enough to truly master them.
Anakatis Kul Blade-Slave - Notable Anakatis Kul Blade-Slaves: HebekKulnar
Anakatis Kul Blade-Slave - Unit Composition: 2 Anakatis Kul
Anakatis Kul Blade-Slave - Wargear: Anakatis Blade - Only two of these weapons are known to exist. Believed to have been discovered rammed through the chest of a towering alien-carcass mummified by untold millennia on a dead world on the very edge of the Ghoul Stars by Zardu Layak, these occult blades reek of unholy, Warp-spawned power. Their forging may well predate human life. Dark and coiling entities have been trapped within the blades, entities that whisper promises of untold might and power, but such promises are only bought at a terrifying price to both body and soul.Power ArmourPlasma Pistol
Anakatis Kul Blade-Slave - Sources: Slaves to Darkness (Novel) by John FrenchThe Solar War (Novel) by John FrenchThe Horus Heresy - Book Five: Tempest (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, pp. 242, 250, 253Forge World - Zardu Layak & Anakatis Kul Blade-Slaves
Anakwanar Sek - Anakwanar Sek: Anakwanar Sek was a formidable and notorious Magister of the Forces of Chaos who served under both Archon Nadzybar and Archon Urlock Gaur during the Sabbat Worlds Crusade. Anakwanar Sek was responsible for the creation of the elite Chaotic warband known as the Sons of Sek.
Anarkh'ad'nron - Anarkh'ad'nron: Anarkh'ad'nron is a Bloodthirster, a Greater Daemon of the Blood God Khorne. His participation in a combined daemonic host, comprised of followers of all four patron Chaos Gods, is briefly mentioned in records of an unknown campaign launched by Chaos against the forces of the Imperium of Man. Leading a cohort of bestial Bloodletters, he followed his master, a Herald of Khorne known as Deathrender, in a campaign of slaughter and mayhem.
Anastasia Arkelius - Anastasia Arkelius: Anastasia Arkelius is a Lord Admiral of the Imperial Navy.She is a member of the so-called "Triumvirate" comprised of herself, her older brother General Derian Arkelius and Lord Commissar Vance Theren that collectively commands the Orpheus Salient of the Achilus Crusade following the death of General Mikal Curas to Hive Fleet Dagon.
Anathame - Anathame: The Anathame was a sword impregnated with the power of the Chaos God Nurgle created by the mysterious Kinebrach, a species of simian-like humanoid aliens who co-existed with the Humans of the Interex culture in the years before the start of the Great Crusade in the late 30th Millennium.If the name of a target was spoken to the blade, the weapon would become totally inimical to that being on an almost molecular level, producing poisons and toxins tailored specifically to them, while also guiding itself towards its target.This blade was stolen by the Word Bearers' Chaos-corrupted first chaplain, Erebus, from the Interex's Hall of Devices, a museum of technology, in the city of Xenobia Principis on the world of Xenobia. Xenobia was the Interex world that the Imperium's 63rd Expeditionary Fleet commanded by the Warmaster Horus was visiting in a failed diplomatic attempt to open peaceful relations between the Interex and the Imperium of Man.The Kinebrach Anathame was then used through a series of events largely orchestrated by Erebus to mortally injure Horus while he was in combat against the forces of Chaos on the Plague Moon of the Feral World of Davin, ultimately forcing him to seek a cure in the Temple of the Serpent Lodge on Davin.At the temple he was corrupted to the service of the Dark Gods by his own mad ambition, and became determined to overthrow the Emperor of Mankind. Later, Erebus would strike eight shards from the blade of the Anathame just before the Battle of Calth to create the Chaos daggers known as the Athame that were used by the Word Bearers Host of Chaos Space Marines that assaulted that world during the Horus Heresy.
Anathame - History: The mysterious xenos known as the Kinebrach were a species of simian-like humanoid aliens who co-existed with the Humans of the advanced Interex civilisation for many centuries before the Great Crusade reached their area of the galaxy in the early 31st Millennium. Long before Humanity had spread across the stars from their homeworld of Terra, the Kinebrach ruled a large and mighty interstellar empire.However, by the time the Humans of the Interex made first contact with them, the Kinebrach empire was old and decaying. The Kinebrach were particularly notable for the sophistication of their weapons, which were quite advanced when compared to that of the Imperium at its height in the early 31st Millennium, though their military technology lagged somewhat behind.The Kinebrach, rather than go to war against a more vibrant and powerful species, decided to ally themselves with Humanity instead. Thus, the Kinebrach were taken under the wing of the Interex, with certain limitations placed upon them. The foremost of these was that no Kinebrach was allowed to carry arms, except in times of war.Those Kinebrach in the Interex military served as shock troops due to their strong, muscled build. The Interex's technology at the time of that civilisation's first contact with the Imperium of Man was very advanced, in some ways more so than than that of the Imperium at its height, and was one of the reasons the Interex was able to progress so quickly as a culture.
Anathame - Architect of Fate: First Chaplain Erebus and the rest of his Word Bearers Space Marine Legion was secretly in league with the Ruinous Powers of Chaos since they had been humiliated by the Emperor for their violations of the Imperial Truth on the world of Khur over 40 standard years before the start of the Horus Heresy. Erebus became a very close confidante and adviser of the Imperial Warmaster Horus.The Words Bearers, who originally had worshipped the Emperor as a god and whose Primarch Lorgar had penned the Lectitio Divinitatus before he turned against his father following the events on Khur, had been brutally reprimanded for their constant erection of temples and shrines dedicated to the worship of the God-Emperor on newly conquered worlds.This was a policy that had directly violated the Emperor's secularist philosophy and had slowed the XVIIth Legion's progress in the Great Crusade to a crawl. In the wake of his humiliation and the reprimand against his Legion on Khur, Lorgar had sought to discover whether there truly were divinities worthy of human worship during the quest that came to be known as the Pilgrimage of Lorgar.During this journey, Lorgar entered the Eye of Terror and came face-to-face with the "truth" of the Primordial Annihilator, the force later called Chaos by Mankind that he believed was truly divine and worthy of his service and the worship of all humanity. He brought this faith to his Legion, and soon all the Astartes of the Word Bearers believed that the Chaos Gods were more worthy of their loyalty and worship than the Emperor who had proved himself to be a false god.With the guidance of the Ruinous Powers, Lorgar and the Word Bearers hatched their secret plans over the course of the next four decades to convert humanity to the service of the Ruinous Powers, starting with Horus. After Lorgar placed his agent near Horus, Erebus slowly managed to twist the thinking of Horus against the Emperor and turn half of the Mournival, the Warmaster's most trusted advisers within the XVIth Legion, towards the same path of treachery by exploiting their intense loyalty to their Primarch over that for their far more distant Emperor.
Anathame - The Interex Compliance: The world of Xenobia was first encountered by the 63rd Expeditionary Fleet of the Luna Wolves Legion, under the command of Horus during the latter days of the Great Crusade in the early 31st Millennium. The Interex were aware of the existence of Chaos (referred by them as "Kaos")  and were devoted to fighting its corruption. As a result, the Interex was highly suspicious of the Imperium's intentions, as they believed that the interlopers from Terra might be servants of the Ruinous Powers. While Horus and his Mournival were treating with the leaders of the Interex, First Chaplain Erebus of the Word Bearers, who had been accompanying the Warmaster as part of his entourage and who was already a secret follower of the Chaos Gods, infiltrated the Hall of Devices on Xenobia, a museum that contained various artefacts and weapons drawn from the history of the Interex and their allied alien species.His objective was to steal the highly valuable and deadly Kinebrach blade known as the Anathame, a Chaos artefact sacred to the Plague God Nurgle. After claiming the blade, Erebus rigged the building to explode to make good his escape. Feeling betrayed by the Imperials, who they took for agents of Chaos for stealing a known Chaos artefact, the Interex's troops immediately attacked the bewildered forces of Horus, sparking a deadly confrontation. The Warmaster was evacuated off-planet by his Astartes as the Luna Wolves unleashed their full might upon the Interex. The Anathame would later play a pivotal role in the corruption of Horus by the Dark Gods upon the Plague Moon of Davin. The Interex were later destroyed by an Imperial military campaign and all of their worlds were brought into Imperial Compliance.
Anathrax - Anathrax: Anathrax is a Daemon World within the hellish realms of the Eye of Terror devoted to Nurgle, the Lord of Plague. A lush but pestilent planet, it is covered by giant bulbous fungi made up of puffy-eyed heads that cough and sneeze a grey mucous which corrupts those who touch it. The Iron Drakes Space Marine Chapter was corrupted on this world 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 on the Daemon World of Anathrax and became the Grey Death warband of Heretic Astartes, ready and willing to spread their plague across the stars.Another of the Chapters later known as The Judged, the Argent Hammers, was also corrupted to the service of Chaos on Anathrax and renamed themselves the Talons of Anathrax.
Anbaric Claw - Anbaric Claw: The Anbaric Claw was a defensive system mounted on war machines used by the Mechanicum of Mars' Anbaric Order, and was also incorporated into the vehicles of some Space Marine Legions that maintained technical ties to the great Forge World cluster of the Anvilus System and its masters. The Anbaric Claw worked by generating a massive-pulse shock of electromagnetic force through the vehicle's hull by way of a battery of electro-chem capacitors.The electromagnetic force generated was able to incinerate nearby organic creatures as well as disrupting, burning out, or completely destroying an enemy war machine's electronic components. Anbaric Claw defensive systems were commonly equipped on Mechanicum Land Raiders, although the full extent of their use is unknown.It is also unknown if the Adeptus Mechanicus is able to produce Anbaric Claw technology in the late 41st Millennium or if the technology has been lost to the Imperium like so much else from the Great Crusade era.
Ancestor's Vengeance Warhead - Ancestor's Vengeance Warhead: The Ancestor's Vengeance Warhead is a warhead placed on a missile that can be fired from an optional missile launcher weapon hardpoint on the Leagues of Votann's Hekaton Land Fortress. When an Ancestor's Vengeance Warhead detonates, it unleashes an electronic interference "haywire field" that wreaks havoc on enemy electronics and other machinery, making it a potent anti-vehicle weapon.
Ancestral Ward Crest - Ancestral Ward Crest: An Ancestral Ward Crest is a form of barrier-tech employed by the Grimnyr of the Leagues of Votann to unleash the power of their psychic disciplines, in this case providing a protective force field that surrounds the Grimnyr and their two CORV assistants.Barrier-tech is the name given to the advanced technology of the Leagues of Votann that allows those Kin cloned with a psychoactive cloneskein, such as the Grimnyr and the Embyr, to access and manipulate the psychic energies of the Immaterium.These devices come to life only at these psychoactive Kin's touch, emitting a soft thrum of power and glimmering with cold witchlight. It is through the careful use of barrier-tech devices like these that the Grimnyr and the Embyr manipulate the energies of the Warp to produce manifestations similar to those conjured into realspace by true psykers without facing the same risk of insanity, loss of control of their powers or Daemonic possession.