List of Chaos Space Marine Warbands - C: NameOriginFoundingSummaryCarrion HoundsDeath GuardFirst FoundingThe Carrion Hounds is a warband or vectorium of the Death Guard Traitor Legion. Vast hordes of Poxwalkers screen the advance of the Carrion Hounds. The warriors of this vile host hold a great affection for the shambling monsters, and often assemble morbid "collections" of infected souls, such as defeated Astra Militarum regiments or entire noble families.Children of BlainSteel CobrasUnknownThe Children of Blain, sometimes known by the more common moniker "Chil'Blains", is a warband of Chaos Space Marines dedicated to Nurgle that was once the Loyalist Space Marine Chapter known as the Steel Cobras. It is now a component warband of the Death Guard.Children of PurgatosUnknownUnknownThe Children of Purgatos are a Renegade Chapter of Chaos Space Marines of unknown Founding and origin, that was declared Excommunicate Traitoris by the High Lords of Terra for reasons that are not listed in Imperial records. What remains of the Chapter now operates as a Chaos Space Marine warband. The warband was founded and is currently led by Battle Psyker Kerberos. The Children of Purgatos specialise in undertaking ship-to-ship boarding actions as they often operate as pirates and reavers of Imperial shipping.Children of TormentBlack LegionUnknownThe Children of Torment are a special formation of Chaos Space Marines found within the Black Legion who are wholly dedicated to the service of Slaanesh. Hundreds of followers of the Pleasure God have sworn their allegiance to Abaddon the Despoiler and joined the ranks of the Black Legion. Under the guidance of warlords such as Devram Korda, they consist of multiple powerful warbands which comprise this hedonistic collective. These devotees of the Prince of Pleasure bow to Abaddon, for he grants them unending opportunities to wallow in the pleasure provided by the anguish of his mortal victims, and feed upon their gushing lifeblood. Even though they are devotees of Slaanesh, the Children of Torment are despised by members of the Emperor's Children, who see them as traitors to the Daemon Primarch Fulgrim and lapdogs of a lesser Warmaster.The Chosen of HeirosunknownUnknownThe Chosen of Heiros are a notorious warband of Chaos Space Marines. These sadistic killers once numbered among Abaddon's mightiest warriors and are responsible for countless atrocities during his infamous Black Crusades. Each had their own reasons for abandoning their villainous master and fleeing to the Screaming Vortex, yet all burn with an unquenchable desire to march to war beneath banners of hate and destruction.Chosen of NemerothUnknownUnknownThe Chosen of Nemeroth are a warband of Chaos Space Marines who were led by the infamous Chaos Sorcerer Nemeroth. Nemeroth led his warband in an attempt to conquer the Imperial Forge World of Graia located in the Segmentum Tempestus in the late 41st Millennium that was defeated by the Ultramarines 2nd Company under the command of Captain Titus. The Chosen of Nemeroth were known to make extensive use of daemons as allies. The origin of the Chaos Space Marines in this warband i.e., whether they were taken from one of the existing Traitor Legions, had originated as Loyalist Space Marines or had been drawn from other Renegade warbands, is unknown. Little else is known about this warband in Imperial records.Claws of LorekAstral Claws (Unconfirmed)UnknownThe Claws of Lorek are a warband of Chaos Space Marines of unknown origin or Founding. They have been noted by Imperial scholars as a possible splinter group of the Renegade Astral Claws Chapter. Allegedly, this splinter group went on a separate path of escape from the rest of their former Chapter during the final assault on Lufgt Huron's Palace of Thorns on Badab Primaris at the conclusion of the Badab War. Their current warleader, the Chaos Champion Lorek, has maintained the warband's allegiance to Huron Blackheart. The Claws of Lorek have been known to take on various assignments to find artefacts of power, to sow mayhem and destruction among the worlds of the Imperium, or to recruiting deep within the borders of the Imperium of Mankind's Ultima Segmentum to find disgruntled Imperial citizens or Renegade Space Marines willing to join their cause.The CleavedUnknownUnknownThe Cleaved are a warband of Chaos Space Marines of unknown origin and allegiance. These mysterious warriors first appeared during the insurrection on the world of Magma Codelian. The Loyalist Imperial Guardsmen of the 334th Iridian Regiment had pushed their way into the rebellious Planetary Governor's palace after a sustained bombardment. The regiment's Primaris Psykers realised too late that the architecture of the Governor's keep was actually a gigantic summoning circle. Amongst the choking fumes, the insurrectionists conjured reinforcements; not daemons, but Chaos Space Marines with strange, oil-like blood oozing from the joints in their armour. Though the new arrivals were massively outnumbered, the Power Armoured warriors exhibited an incredibly high pain threshold, fighting on through mortal wounds to eventually repel the Iridians' attack and secure the planet for the insurrectionists.Clerics of SteelUnknownUnknownThe Clerics of Steel were once a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter of unknown origin and Founding. They were corrupted after entering the Eye of Terror in 321.M37 as part of the Abyssal Crusade. It is unknown what they endured during their sojourn into the Eye, but by the time they made their way back into realspace, they had become the warband of Chaos Space Marines known as the Invocators.Company of MiseryDesolate BrotherhoodUnknownThe Company of Misery is a warband of Chaos Space Marines of unknown allegiance. Since the degradation of their gene-seed stocks in the 32nd Millennium, the formerly Loyalist Chapter known as the Desolate Brotherhood found themselves assigned to impossibly dangerous and undesirable duties, including assaults on Death Worlds, Space Hulks and quarantine zones. Each time the Brotherhood believed they had won a reprieve, they were sent on an even more hazardous mission, plunging them into a spiral of dissolution and despair. After a catastrophe in the acid swamps of the world of Misery, the Chapter took a new name and left their duties behind, forever becoming sworn enemies of the Imperium and the illusion of hope. They were first encountered by Imperial forces on the world of Maddean IV in the 37th Millennium. A recent search of Imperial records concerning this warband led to the discovery of connections in the records between the Company of Misery and the Brethren of Mystery. Whether this is another unit of Chaos Space Marines with some prior connection to the Company of Misery is unknown at this time.Company of the ShadowDeath FalconsUnknownThe Company of the Shadow was a formerly Loyalist Space Marine Chapter known as the Death Falcons that was founded during the dawn of the 41st Millennium, hailing from the night-shrouded world of Bastonbeil. During the Conclave of Gathalamar, when the Chapter Master was away renewing his oaths of allegiance to the Emperor, something ancient and evil awoke beneath the underhive of Bastonbeil's capital city of Shadowhive, which served as the Chapter's Fortress-Monastery. This mysterious entity devoured millions of souls, leaving only mindless zombies in its wake. The Chapter responded in force, deploying the entire Chapter. It is unknown what transpired within the dark depths of the underhive, but after three solar months they emerged from the pits of blackness as grey-armoured, nightmarish spectres. They were no longer the Death Falcons, they had become the warband known as the Company of the Shadow.CorpsemakersBlack LegionUnknownThe Corpsemakers are a vicious warband of Chaos Space Marines derived from the Black Legion.Corpsemakers (Death Guard)Death GuardFirst FoundingThe Corpsemakers is a warband or vectorium of the Death Guard Traitor Legion. The Corpsemakers see the destruction of the Imperium's grandest strongholds as their profane duty. Burrowing into the bedrock of enemy bastions like maggots through flesh, they undermine and corrupt the foundations so that the entire structure soon falls.Corpus BrethrenSentinelsUnknownThe Corpus Brethren are a warband of Chaos Space Marines dedicated to the Pleasure God Slaanesh. They were once a Loyalist Chapter of Space Marines of unknown origin and Founding, known as the Sentinels Chapter. They were corrupted after entering the Eye of Terror in 321.M37 as part of the Imperial Abyssal Crusade. During their sojourn into the Eye, the Sentinels found signs of Chaos Space Marine infestation and made planetfall on the Daemon World of Oliensis. The Sentinels hunted down and exterminated the goat-headed hedonists, but the cacophony of combat stirred Slaaneshi Noise Marines and soon the battle was joined. The raging conflict stirred the living planet itself, which swallowed the combatants into a large chasm. By the time they reemerged, the Sentinels were no longer recognisable, having been transformed into the Corpus Brethren.Coven of NineUnknownUnknownThe Coven of Nine is a warband of Chaos Space Marines dedicated to the service of Tzeentch, the Lord of Change. They participated in the assault on the Stygius Sector during the Stygius Crusade that ultimately led to the conquest of that region of the Imperium for the Changer of Ways. The Coven of Nine was led, as the name implies, by nine Exalted Chaos Sorcerers of Tzeentch. The Sorcerers lead a vast warhost that includes daemons, Chaos Space Marines, and hordes of Chaos Cultists. Little else is currently known about them in Imperial records.Creations of BileUnknownUnknownThe Creations of Bile are a warband of Chaos Space Marines made up of the twisted Astartes creations of the infamous Chaos Lord and former Apothecary Fabius Bile.Crimson SabresUnknownUnknownThe Crimson Sabres were once a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter of unknown origin and Founding, until they began their descent into Heresy on the Jungle World of Umidia with the genocidal purging of the Balethu Cults in 928.M41. As punishment (or possibly reward) for the bloody annihilation of his worshipers, the Blood God Khorne cursed the Crimson Sabres to be haunted by the voices of those they had slain. Driven to madness, they Crimson Sabres set upon another innocent world and slaughtered its population as well. The carnage temporarily silenced the voices in their heads but eventually they returned to plague them once more. The Chapter was soon declared Renegade by both the Inquisition and the High Lords of Terra due to signs of continued psychological instability and over-zealous prosecution of their campaigns. Sevastus Kranon, the Chapter Master of the Crimson Sabres, led his warriors into the Eye of Terror to slaughter Traitors instead of spilling the blood of innocents, thereby gaining a temporary respite. Within the Eye, they became fully corrupted by the Dark Gods. When they returned to realspace, they had become the warband known as the Crimson Slaughter.Crimson SlaughterCrimson SabresUnknownThe Crimson Slaughter is a warband of Chaos Space Marines of unknown Founding and origin. They were once known as a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter called the Crimson Sabres until they began their descent into Heresy on the Jungle World of Umidia with the genocidal purging of the Balethu Cults in 928.M41. As punishment (or possibly reward) for the bloody annihilation of his worshipers, the Blood God Khorne cursed the Crimson Sabres to be haunted by the voices of those they had slain. Driven to madness, they Crimson Sabres set upon another innocent world and slaughtered its population as well. The carnage temporarily silenced the voices in their heads but eventually they returned to plague them once more. The Chapter was soon declared Renegade by both the Inquisition and the High Lords of Terra due to signs of continued psychological instability and over-zealous prosecution of their campaigns. Sevastus Kranon, the Chapter Master of the Crimson Sabres, led his warriors into the Eye of Terror to slaughter Traitors instead of spilling the blood of innocents, thereby gaining a temporary respite. Within the Eye, they became fully corrupted by the Dark Gods. When they returned to realspace, they had become the warband known as the Crimson Slaughter.Crimson SonsThousand SonsUnknownThe Crimson Sons are a warband of Chaos Space Marines dedicated to the Chaos God Tzeentch that was originally formed by members of the Thousand Sons Traitor Legion. The Crimson Sons were exiled by their Primarch Magnus the Red for aiding in the casting of the disastrous sorcerous ritual known as the Rubric of Ahriman. Despite this exile, the warband paid tribute to the Crimson King, their Primarch Magnus the Red, with their name and also by colouring their Power Armour a deep red.Crusaders of DornUnknownUnknownThe Crusaders of Dorn were once a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter of unknown origin and Founding. They were corrupted after entering the Eye of Terror in 321.M37 as part of the Abyssal Crusade. It is unknown what they endured during their sojourn into the Eye, but by the time they made their way back into realspace, they had become the warband of Chaos Space Marines known as the Brotherhood of Lethe.The Crystal HarbingersThousand SonsUnknownThe Crystal Harbingers are a thrallband of the Thousand Sons Traitor Legion. The Sorcerers of the Crystal Harbingers delve into the hidden recesses of the Silver Towers to explore the Tzeentchian labyrinth to which they lead. Here they glean portents of the future and commune with daemonic entities, which they then use to terrifying effect in their wars against the forces of the Imperium.Crystal WyvernsBronze GorgonsUnknownThe Crystal Wyverns are a warband of Chaos Space Marines. They were once a Loyalist Chapter of Space Marines of unknown origin and Founding known as the Bronze Gorgons. They were corrupted after entering the Eye of Terror in 321.M37 as part of the Imperial Abyssal Crusade. It is unknown what they endured during their sojourn into the Eye, but by the time they made their way back into realspace, they had become the warband of Chaos Space Marines known as the Crystal Wyverns.Cursed CompanyunknownUnknownThe Cursed Company is a little known warband of Chaos Space Marines of unknown origin and Founding.