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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. 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. 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. 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.
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. 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 thirst for power at any cost will offer themselves wholly to Chaos, becoming willing hosts for the immaterial entities 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.įor 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. Their body has been possessed by a Chaos Daemon, who keeps its Human shell alive using the energy of the Warp. 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.
" To give oneself to Chaos, body and soul - is there any more complete an act of devotion?"Ī Khorne Daemonkin, a form of Possessed Chaos Space Marine.