The roots of the Cohors Nasicae reach back to the black sands of Isstvan III, where the warriors of Squad Nasicae fought at the side of the swordsman Lucius during the reconquest that followed the Legion's betrayal. In time they became his chosen bodyguard, and then his own warband, following him down the long millennia of his cursed immortality. From their vessel, the Diadem, they range across the galaxy in service to a lord who cannot truly die.
The Cohors is a fickle and fractious thing, its membership rising and falling as squads coalesce and shatter at a whim, its strength bolstered by a Raptor Cult known as the Rypax and a network of adoring torture-cultists who scour the stars for worthy prey. For Lucius seeks always the deadliest opponent, the duellist skilled enough to test him, and drives his warband to whatever war promises such a foe. When a run of reversals reduced the Cohors to a mere handful of surviving Astartes, Lucius was forced to treat with the Chief Apothecary Fabius Bile to replenish his depleted host, and in doing so folded his warriors into a greater coalition known as the Faultless. Yet the Cohors Nasicae endures as it always has, an extension of one man's endless, exquisite cruelty.
Emperor's Children
Order of battle
The Cohors Nasicae field the units of the Emperor's Children — a detachment from the roster:
Kindred formations
Other Emperor's Children formations
The Flawless HostThe Flawless Host style themselves the truest inheritors of the Legion's founding ideal, insisting that they alone have achieved genuine perfection while their kin merely wallow in indulgence. Cold, arrogant, and unnervingly serene, they wage war with immaculate precision, treating every battle as a demonstration of their supposed flawlessness. Their contempt extends even to fellow servants of Slaanesh, whom they regard as unfinished works.
The Kakophoni ChoirThe Kakophoni Choir are devotees of the sonic arts, warbands built around massed ranks of sound-weapon bearers who treat warfare as a grand and hideous concert. To them, the destruction wrought by their weapons is music, and each battle is a composition to be conducted with care. They seek out worlds famed for their acoustics or their populations, staging symphonies of annihilation for the pleasure of their god.
The Phoenix ConclaveThe Phoenix Conclave is a council of the mightiest Emperor's Children warlords, bound together by the Lord Commander Primus Eidolon in pursuit of a single obsession: the reunification of Fulgrim's shattered Legion and the return of their primarch to lead it. More a fragile alliance of predators than a true command, it endures only so long as its members' shared ambition outweighs their appetite for one another's ruin.
The ScourgedThe Scourged are among the most extreme of the Emperor's Children, warriors who have driven the pursuit of sensation so far that pain and pleasure have become indistinguishable to them. They mutilate themselves and their captives in elaborate rituals, wearing their scars as trophies and works of art. In battle they hurl themselves at the enemy with reckless abandon, hungry for the exquisite agony of the fray.