Possessed - Possessed: The Possessed, also known as Possessed Chaos Space Marines, Daemonkin and "The Secondborn," are those Chaos Space Marines who have entirely forsaken their Humanity and given up their souls and bodies to the Daemonic servants of the Chaos Gods.Their body has been possessed by a Chaos Daemon, who keeps its Human shell alive using the energy of the Warp. The Possessed feel no pain and their bodies can be warped and mutated to suit the purpose or whim of the Daemon that inhabits them.For some of the more extreme devotees of the Ruinous Powers, simply offering their souls up to the service of the Chaos Gods is not enough. Those who thirst for power at any cost will offer themselves wholly to Chaos, becoming willing hosts for the immaterial entities of the Warp.Such a possession is a lengthy and agonising experience, as the Daemons within them infest their physical forms and reshape them to better suit their particular needs. Those who offer themselves up for possession usually spend solar months in rituals of debasement and scarification, offering up blood sacrifices and preparing their bodies to harbour a daemonic entity.Though the personalities of these half-mad supplicants are subsumed forever within the power of the possessing Daemon, mass possessions are nonetheless great celebrations for the devotees of Chaos of the spiritual union between mortal and Daemon, material and Empyrean. They are marked by the more lustful amongst the devotees of Chaos with orgies of feasting and other depravity, and by the more devout with solemn hymnals of impurity.The Daemonkin are easily identified by their grotesquely mutated bodies; they may possess vicious claws, warped limbs, tentacles, wings, extra mouths and eyes or razored talons that can gouge through ceramite and steel alike.In battle they sometimes appear to flicker in and out of reality or even take different forms from one moment to the next, bounding along in the manner of predatory beasts only to erupt into howling tornadoes of teeth and claws that seem more ethereal storm than mortal man.They make superb trackers, for they are able to perceive the material realm and the Empyrean at the same time -- they can see fear, taste doubt and feel the greasy psychic stain of despair. Using these uncanny senses the Possessed can even guide the warfleets of the Chaos Space Marines through the shifting tides of the Warp better than any Imperial Navigator should they deign to help their mortal allies. However, their primary role -- and the activity which they most relish -- is to tear those who stand against the will of the Chaos Gods limb from limb.In many Heretic Astartes hosts, such as the Fire Reavers, Crimson Slaughter and Invocators, those who are successfully taken over by a Daemon are considered the most blessed of all warriors. The ferocious Gal Vorbak of the Word Bearers are exemplars of this high esteem, held up as blasphemous saints by the Dark Apostles that speak of them.If the tales are true, they were the first Space Marines to become Possessed during the Horus Heresy, breaking the laws of reality in order to better serve the Ruinous Powers worshipped by their Primarch Lorgar and his advisors. Though they have long faded into legend, the ranks of the Word Bearers have numbered a great many Possessed ever since, forming powerful links to their Daemon allies in the process.