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Plain-English definitions of the terms, weapons, places, and powers of Warhammer 40,000 — every one cross-linked into the archive.
38 terms
Technology
AdamantiumAdamantium is one of the strongest and most durable metals known to the Imperium, an extraordinarily tough alloy used wherever supreme strength is req…
ArcheotechArcheotech is the term given to technology surviving from the Dark Age of Technology, humanity's lost golden epoch when mankind commanded the stars wi…
AuspexAn auspex is a handheld scanning device used throughout the Imperium to detect and analyse the surrounding environment, a vital tool for warriors and …
BanebladeThe Baneblade is one of the largest and most powerful battle tanks fielded by the Astra Militarum, a super-heavy behemoth that dwarfs the standard tan…
Cataphractii Terminator ArmourThe Horus HeresyCataphractii Terminator armour was among the earliest and most revered patterns of Tactical Dreadnought plate, worn by the elite of the Legions during…
CeramiteCeramite is a dense, heat-resistant armour material used throughout the Imperium to protect its warriors, vehicles, and war machines from the fires of…
CogitatorA cogitator is the Imperium's equivalent of a computer, a data-processing engine used to calculate, store information, and control machinery across th…
Cryo-StasisCryo-stasis refers to the technologies of suspended animation and frozen time by which the Imperium and other powers preserve the living, the dead, an…
DreadnoughtA Dreadnought is a towering armoured war machine that gives a grievously wounded warrior a second life as a walking engine of destruction. When one of…
Drop PodA Drop Pod is a one-way assault craft used by the Space Marines to descend directly from orbit into the heart of a battle. Launched from a warship hig…
Land RaiderThe Land Raider is among the most powerful and revered battle tanks in the Space Marine armoury, a massive armoured behemoth that combines heavy firep…
Leman Russ TankThe Leman Russ is the main battle tank of the Astra Militarum and the armoured backbone of the Imperium's countless regiments. Rugged, reliable, and s…
PromethiumPromethium is the Imperium's ubiquitous fuel and combustible chemical, a versatile substance that powers engines, fuels weapons, and lights the fires …
Refractor FieldA refractor field is a personal energy shield worn by officers, nobles, and other important individuals across the Imperium to protect them from harm.…
RhinoThe Rhino is the workhorse armoured transport of the Space Marines, a tracked vehicle designed to carry a squad of warriors swiftly and safely across …
Servo-SkullA servo-skull is a small hovering device fashioned from a real human skull, fitted with anti-gravity motors and machinery that let it drift through th…
Standard Template ConstructA Standard Template Construct, almost always abbreviated to STC, is a form of ancient technology dating from humanity's long-lost golden age, when man…
Tartaros Terminator ArmourThe Horus HeresyTartaros Terminator armour was a refined pattern of Tactical Dreadnought plate developed late in the Great Crusade, prized for combining the resilienc…
The Butcher's NailsThe Horus HeresyThe Butcher's Nails were crude neural implants embedded in the brain, a technology of the fighting pits that traded sanity for savagery. They suppress…
The CastellaxThe Horus HeresyThe Castellax was the mainstay battle-automaton of the Legio Cybernetica, a hulking robotic war-engine deployed by the Mechanicum throughout the Great…
The Contemptor DreadnoughtThe Horus HeresyThe Contemptor Dreadnought was among the most advanced war-machines fielded by the Legiones Astartes during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy, a …
The Deredeo DreadnoughtThe Horus HeresyThe Deredeo Dreadnought was a rare and powerful pattern of Legiones Astartes Dreadnought fielded during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy, design…
The Domitar Battle-automataThe Horus HeresyThe Domitar Battle-automata was a formidable close-assault robot fielded by the Legio Cybernetica of the Mechanicum during the Great Crusade and the H…
The Gellar FieldThe Gellar field is a form of protective energy bubble that shrouds a starship as it travels through the warp, the roiling parallel dimension that ves…
The Iron CircleThe Horus HeresyThe Iron Circle was the personal bodyguard of Perturabo, Primarch of the Iron Warriors, a phalanx of Domitar-pattern battle-automata forged to his own…
The Krios Battle TankThe Horus HeresyThe Krios Battle Tank was a mainstay armoured vehicle of the Mechanicum's Taghmata armies during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy. A low, heavil…
The Legio CyberneticaThe Horus HeresyThe Legio Cybernetica was the order of the Mechanicum devoted to the creation and control of battle-automata, soulless engines of war that marched to …
The Leviathan DreadnoughtThe Horus HeresyThe Leviathan Dreadnought was a rare and monstrous siege-engine of the Legiones Astartes, a heavily armoured variant of the interred war-machine desig…
The Machine SpiritThe machine spirit is the animating essence that the Imperium believes dwells within every piece of technology, from the humblest tool to the mighties…
The MechanicumThe Horus HeresyThe Mechanicum was the vast priesthood of Mars, the guild of tech-savants and machine-worshippers whose mastery of the arcane sciences underpinned the…
The Selenar Gene-cultsThe Horus HeresyThe Selenar gene-cults were the ancient masters of genetic craft who dwelt upon Luna, Terra's moon, hoarding secrets of human augmentation that predat…
The Triaros ConveyorThe Horus HeresyThe Triaros Conveyor was a heavily armoured transport vehicle used by the Mechanicum during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy to carry its cybern…
The Vorax AutomataThe Horus HeresyThe Vorax Automata was a class of battle-automata employed by the Mechanicum during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy, built for speed and savage…
The Webway ProjectThe Horus HeresyThe Webway Project was the Emperor's greatest secret: a colossal undertaking beneath the Imperial Palace to breach and tame the ancient alien network …
ThunderhawkThe Thunderhawk is a heavily armed and armoured gunship, the primary aircraft of the Space Marines and one of the most versatile war machines in their…
TitanA Titan is a colossal walking war machine, among the largest and most devastating engines of destruction the Imperium can field. Towering over the bat…
Void ShieldsVoid shields are powerful energy barriers used to protect the Imperium's largest war machines, starships, and fortresses from otherwise devastating at…
VoidshipA Voidship is any of the colossal vessels that ply the darkness between the stars, the sole means by which the far-flung worlds of the Imperium remain…
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Places
AgripinaaAgripinaa is a great forge world of the Segmentum Obscurus, positioned in the perilous marches near the Eye of Terror and the region once anchored by …
BaalBaal is the harsh homeworld of the Blood Angels, a Chapter of the Space Marines renowned for their nobility, artistry, and the terrible curse that hau…
CadiaCadia was a fortress world of immense strategic importance, standing sentinel at the mouth of the Cadian Gate, the most stable passage between the Eye…
CatachanCatachan is one of the deadliest death worlds in the Imperium, a jungle planet whose every plant, beast, and insect has evolved into a lethal predator…
CommorraghCommorragh is the sprawling hidden city of the Drukhari, concealed within the deepest and most secure reaches of the Webway, beyond the sight of gods …
Cypra MundiCypra Mundi is a fortress world and one of the greatest naval bastions of the Imperium, serving as a principal command hub for the fleets that patrol …
FenrisFenris is a savage, ice-locked death world and the homeworld of the Space Wolves, one of the most storied of the Emperor's Space Marine Chapters. A pl…
Forge WorldA forge world is a planet given over entirely to industry and manufacture, ruled not by the Imperium's usual governors but by the Adeptus Mechanicus, …
Hive CityA hive city is a colossal, self-contained urban structure that rises kilometers into the sky and burrows deep beneath the surface of a planet, housing…
Holy TerraHoly Terra is the ancient homeworld of humanity and the sacred heart of the Imperium, revered across a million systems as the birthplace of the specie…
KriegKrieg is a blighted, irradiated world whose people are defined by an unshakable devotion to death in the Emperor's service. Long ago the planet was re…
LunaLuna is the ancient moon of Holy Terra, the first world beyond humanity's cradle to be settled and the oldest bastion of the Imperium after Terra itse…
MacraggeMacragge is the fortress-capital of the realm of Ultramar and the revered homeworld of the Ultramarines, among the most disciplined and storied Chapte…
MarsMars is the fourth planet of the Sol System and the most sacred world of the Adeptus Mechanicus, the ancient priesthood of the Machine God that overse…
MedusaMedusa is the bleak and unforgiving homeworld of the Iron Hands, a Chapter of the Space Marines whose disdain for the weakness of flesh borders on obs…
MordianMordian is a sunless, tidally locked world whose habitable band lies in perpetual night, a realm of eternal darkness lit only by artificial means. Fac…
NocturneNocturne is the volcanic homeworld of the Salamanders, a Chapter of the Space Marines known for their compassion, their mastery of the forge, and thei…
OctariusOctarius is a war-torn region of space consumed by one of the most terrible conflicts of the age, a grinding struggle between two of the galaxy's most…
ProsperoProspero was the shining homeworld of the Thousand Sons, a world of learning and sorcery unlike any other in the early Imperium. Its principal city, T…
RyzaRyza is one of the most important forge worlds of the Imperium, a bastion of the Adeptus Mechanicus renowned above all for its mastery of plasma techn…
Sanctus ReachSanctus Reach is a cluster of Imperial worlds in the Ultima Segmentum that became the target of one of the most ferocious Ork invasions of recent time…
Segmentum SolarSegmentum Solar is the central of the five vast administrative regions into which the Imperium divides the galaxy, and the most sacred of them all, fo…
TallarnTallarn is an arid desert world whose people are counted among the finest mobile and guerrilla fighters in the Imperium. A sun-scorched planet of endl…
TanithTanith was a forested world of the Sabbat Worlds region, a quiet planet of endless woodlands whose people were skilled woodsmen, scouts, and trackers.…
TerraxTerrax was a subterranean world brought to compliance during the Great Crusade, in the distant age when the Emperor and his Space Marine legions still…
The Cadian GateThe Cadian Gate was the single most strategically vital region in the Imperium for ten thousand years, a narrow and navigable corridor of space that o…
The Damocles GulfThe Damocles Gulf is a broad expanse of largely empty space on the eastern fringe of the galaxy, a region of thin and scattered stars that long formed…
The Eye of TerrorThe Eye of Terror is a vast and malignant region of space where the material universe and the immaterial realm of the warp have merged into a single n…
The Forge WorldsThe Forge Worlds are the great industrial planets of the Adeptus Mechanicus, the manufacturing bastions upon which the entire war machine of the Imper…
The Ghoul StarsThe Ghoul Stars are a sinister region lying beyond the galactic rim, a stretch of dying and dead suns cloaked in an especially fearsome reputation. Ev…
The Golden ThroneThe Golden Throne is an immense and arcane device housed within the deepest sanctum of the Imperial Palace on Holy Terra, upon which the Emperor of Ma…
The Halo StarsThe Halo Stars are the scattered, isolated suns that lie beyond the fringe of the galaxy's great spiral, strewn across the lonely dark of the galactic…
The Isstvan SystemThe Horus HeresyThe Isstvan System was a remote cluster of worlds that became synonymous with the opening horrors of the war, its planets the stage for the two atroci…
The MaelstromThe Maelstrom is a turbulent warp storm and region of corrupted space situated toward the galactic center, a churning tempest where the immaterium ble…
The Segmentum ObscurusThe Segmentum Obscurus is the great northern administrative region of the Imperium, a vast swathe of the galaxy whose reaches are shadowed by the pres…
The Sol SystemThe Sol System is the birthplace of humanity and the sacred heart of the Imperium, the star system that cradles Holy Terra, the Throneworld from which…
The Vengeful SpiritThe Horus HeresyThe Vengeful Spirit was the flagship of Horus Lupercal, a Gloriana-class battleship among the mightiest vessels ever raised by the Mechanicum, and the…
The WebwayThe Webway is a labyrinthine network of tunnels and passages that threads through the dimension between real space and the warp, allowing travel acros…
UltramarUltramar is the realm of the Ultramarines, a cluster of worlds in the Ultima Segmentum that stands as perhaps the most stable, prosperous, and well-go…
ValhallaValhalla is a frozen world locked in an eternal ice age, a planet of glaciers, blizzards, and subzero wastes where survival demands endurance beyond t…
VigilusVigilus is a strategically vital world positioned within the Nachmund Gauntlet, one of the few stable passages through the great galaxy-splitting warp…
VraksVraks is a bleak armory world that became the site of one of the most grueling sieges in the Imperium's recent history. Once a secure depot where the …
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Ranks & Institutions
ApothecaryAn Apothecary is the specialist medic of a Space Marine Chapter, a warrior trained in both battlefield surgery and the arcane biological arts that sus…
AstropathAn astropath is a sanctioned human telepath whose gift allows messages to be sent across the vast gulfs of the galaxy, forming the nervous system of t…
BlackshieldThe Horus HeresyA Blackshield was a Space Marine who fought in the Age of Darkness with his Legion's heraldry struck from his armour, his allegiance and origin delibe…
ChaplainA Chaplain is the spiritual leader of a Space Marine Chapter, a warrior-priest who tends the souls and beliefs of his transhuman brothers. Clad in bla…
Chapter MasterA Chapter Master is the supreme commander of a Space Marine Chapter, the roughly thousand-strong brotherhood into which the ancient Legions were divid…
CommissarA Commissar is a political officer and morale enforcer attached to the regiments of the Astra Militarum, the vast conscript armies of the Imperium. Tr…
InquisitorAn Inquisitor is an agent of the Imperial Inquisition, the shadowy body charged with rooting out threats to humanity from within and without. Wielding…
LibrarianA Librarian is a Space Marine who is also a powerful psyker, one of the rare Astartes able to bend the energies of the Warp to his will in battle. Com…
NavigatorA Navigator is a member of a rare and ancient breed of mutant human, prized for the singular ability to guide starships safely through the treacherous…
Ordo HereticusThe Ordo Hereticus is the branch of the Inquisition charged with policing the Imperium from within, rooting out the heretic, the mutant, the rogue psy…
Ordo MalleusThe Ordo Malleus is the branch of the Inquisition devoted to the deadliest enemy of all: the daemon. Where other agents of the Imperium may go their e…
Ordo XenosThe Ordo Xenos is the branch of the Inquisition tasked with confronting the alien. In a galaxy teeming with hostile and inhuman species, its Inquisito…
PrimarchA Primarch is one of twenty genetically engineered warlords created by the Emperor of Mankind to serve as demigod commanders of His armies. Each was f…
Rogue TraderA Rogue Trader is a rare individual granted a Warrant of Trade, an ancient document that licenses its bearer to venture beyond the Imperium's borders …
ServitorA Servitor is a mind-wiped, cybernetically enhanced drone used throughout the Imperium to perform labor that would otherwise require thinking machines…
Space Marine ChapterA Space Marine Chapter is the fundamental organisation of the Adeptus Astartes, a self-contained brotherhood of roughly a thousand superhuman warriors…
Space Marine LegionA Space Marine Legion was one of the original, enormous formations of the Adeptus Astartes, the mighty armies with which the Emperor waged His campaig…
Tech-PriestA Tech-Priest is an initiate of the Adeptus Mechanicus, the technological priesthood that worships the Machine God and safeguards humanity's surviving…
TechmarineA Techmarine is a Space Marine who has been trained in the mysteries of technology by the Adeptus Mechanicus, serving as the keeper of his Chapter's m…
The Adeptus ArbitesThe Adeptus Arbites are the enforcers of Imperial law, a militarised judicial force that upholds the edicts of Terra across every world of the Imperiu…
The Adeptus Astra TelepathicaThe Adeptus Astra Telepathica is the Imperial institution responsible for gathering, training, and controlling the human psykers upon whom the realm d…
The Adeptus TerraThe Adeptus Terra, often called the Priesthood of Earth, is the sprawling collection of Imperial institutions based upon holy Terra that together admi…
The AdministratumThe Administratum is the immense bureaucracy that records, taxes, and administers the Imperium of Man, the beating clerical heart of the Adeptus Terra…
The Codex AstartesThe Codex Astartes is the foundational treatise that governs the organization, tactics, and doctrine of the Space Marines. Composed in the aftermath o…
The Crusader HostThe Horus HeresyThe Crusader Host was a body of Space Marines drawn from every Legion and stationed upon Terra, serving as envoys of their primarchs at the heart of t…
The Departmento MunitorumThe Departmento Munitorum is the division of the Adeptus Terra responsible for supplying, transporting, and sustaining the armed forces of mankind. It…
The EcclesiarchyThe Ecclesiarchy is the official state church of the Imperium, the vast religious institution devoted to the worship of the Emperor as the one true go…
The Gal VorbakThe Horus HeresyThe Gal Vorbak, the 'Blessed Sons' in the tongue of Colchis, were the first of the Word Bearers to be knowingly possessed by the daemons of the warp. …
The Great CrusadeThe Great Crusade was the sweeping campaign of conquest through which the Emperor of Mankind sought to reunite the scattered worlds of humanity under …
The High Lords of TerraThe High Lords of Terra are the ruling council that governs the Imperium of Man in the name of the Emperor. Since He resides eternally upon the Golden…
The InquisitionThe Inquisition is the secretive and merciless organisation charged with defending the Imperium of Man from every threat to its survival, whether alie…
The JustaerinThe Horus HeresyThe Justaerin were the elite Terminator cadre of the Sons of Horus, the black-armoured killers who formed the Warmaster's most trusted and most feared…
The Knights ErrantThe Horus HeresyThe Knights Errant were a secretive company of Space Marines gathered by Malcador the Sigillite during the darkest days of the war, drawn one by one f…
The LibrariusThe Horus HeresyThe Librarius was the psychic corps of a Space Marine Legion, the body of warrior-psykers — Librarians — who turned the powers of the mind to war. Tra…
The MournivalThe Horus HeresyThe Mournival was an unofficial council of four favoured officers who stood closest to Horus Lupercal, offering him blunt counsel that no formal rank …
The Navis NobiliteThe Navis Nobilite is the ancient confederation of noble houses from which the Imperium's Navigators are drawn, a hereditary aristocracy whose unique …
The Officio AssassinorumThe Officio Assassinorum is the Imperium's most secret order of state-sanctioned killers, a hidden institution that removes the enemies of mankind thr…
The Outcast DeadThe Horus HeresyThe Outcast Dead was the name given to a doomed band of Space Marines caught in the paranoia that seized Terra as news of Horus's treachery arrived. M…
The RemembrancersThe Horus HeresyThe Remembrancers were the artists, poets, historians, and scholars appointed to accompany the Legions and chronicle the glories of the Great Crusade.…
The Schola ProgeniumThe Schola Progenium is the network of Imperial institutions that raises and educates the orphaned children of the Emperor's most devoted servants. Wh…
The Shattered LegionsThe Horus HeresyThe Shattered Legions were the broken remnants of the loyalist Legions gutted at the Drop Site Massacre, who refused to die quietly and instead waged …
The WarmasterThe Horus HeresyThe Warmaster was the supreme martial office of the Great Crusade, created by the Emperor when He departed the front to labour in secret upon Terra. R…
WarmasterA Warmaster is a supreme military commander, a title granted only in the direst circumstances to place vast Imperial forces under a single guiding wil…
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Adeptus Astartes
Assault MarineThe Assault Marine is the shock warrior of a Space Marine Chapter, a close-combat specialist who closes the distance with the enemy and tears them apa…
Black CarapaceThe Black Carapace is the final and most defining of the implanted organs that transform an aspirant into a fully-fledged Space Marine. Fitted beneath…
Devastator MarineThe Devastator Marine is the heavy-weapons specialist of a Space Marine Chapter, the bringer of long-range devastation whose firepower can crack tanks…
Primaris MarineA Primaris Marine is a new breed of transhuman warrior of the Space Marines, developed across ten thousand years of secret labour by the Primarch Robo…
ReiverA Reiver is a specialist within the Vanguard formations of the Primaris Space Marines, a warrior trained in the arts of terror, infiltration, and psyc…
Scout MarineA Scout Marine is an aspirant of the Space Marines who has received the majority of his gene-seed implants but has not yet earned his full battle-plat…
Sternguard VeteransSternguard Veterans are the elite marksmen of the Space Marines, warriors of the First Company who have earned the right to bear the most venerable an…
Tactical MarineThe Tactical Marine is the backbone of a Space Marine Chapter, the versatile line warrior around whom every battle plan is built. Serving in the Battl…
The Death CompanyThe Death Company is the tragic heart of the Blood Angels and their successor Chapters, a formation of the doomed who have succumbed to the Black Rage…
The DeathwingThe Deathwing is the First Company of the Dark Angels, an elite brotherhood of veterans who march to war clad entirely in ancient Terminator armour. B…
The RavenwingThe Ravenwing is the Second Company of the Dark Angels, a fast-attack brotherhood who ride to war on thundering bikes and swift-moving Land Speeders, …
The Red ThirstThe Red Thirst is a genetic curse afflicting the Blood Angels and their successor Chapters of the Space Marines, a flaw woven into their gene-seed by …
The Wolf GuardThe Wolf Guard are the mightiest warriors of the Space Wolves, veterans who have proven themselves in a hundred battles and earned a place at the side…
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Weapons & Wargear
AutocannonThe autocannon is a heavy automatic weapon that fires large, high-velocity explosive shells in rapid succession, bridging the gap between anti-infantr…
BolterThe bolter is the iconic sidearm of the Space Marines and one of the most recognisable weapons in the Warhammer 40,000 setting. Rather than firing con…
ChainswordThe chainsword is a close-combat weapon shaped like a broad blade but edged with a spinning loop of powered, motorised teeth, much like a handheld cha…
Dark LanceThe dark lance is a fearsome anti-armour weapon wielded by the Drukhari, the sadistic raiders of the dark city, and one of the deadliest such arms in …
FlamerThe flamer is an incendiary weapon that spews a gout of burning promethium fuel across a wide arc, engulfing everything before it in searing flame. Ra…
Force WeaponA force weapon is a psychically attuned melee arm that a trained psyker can charge with the raw energy of the mind, transforming an ordinary-looking b…
Frag and Krak GrenadesFrag and krak grenades are the two most common types of hand-thrown and launched explosive used across the armies of the Imperium, each designed for a…
Gauss WeaponsGauss weapons are the signature armaments of the Necrons, ancient and terrible arms that do not merely wound but strip their targets apart atom by ato…
Grav-WeaponsGrav weapons are exotic armaments that turn the force of gravity itself into a weapon, projecting fields that crush their targets under sudden, immens…
Heavy BolterThe heavy bolter is a crew-served support weapon that magnifies the principle of the bolter into a withering hail of fire. Where a standard boltgun fi…
LascannonThe lascannon is a heavy energy weapon that concentrates the laser technology of the humble lasgun into a single, armour-shattering blast. Instead of …
LasgunThe lasgun is the standard-issue rifle of the Astra Militarum, the vast human armies of the Imperium, and by sheer numbers it is the most widely used …
Macro-CannonA macro-cannon is a class of enormous artillery weapon so large that it can only be mounted on war machines, fortifications, and the void-faring warsh…
Melta WeaponsMelta weapons are short-ranged heat weapons designed to reduce armour, bunkers, and war machines to slag in a single blast. They project a beam of int…
Missile LauncherThe missile launcher is one of the most versatile heavy weapons in the Imperial arsenal, a shoulder- or vehicle-mounted tube that fires self-propelled…
Multi-MeltaThe multi-melta is the heaviest man-portable member of the melta family, a fearsome short-ranged weapon that reduces armour and war machines to molten…
Plasma WeaponsPlasma weapons are among the most powerful and feared energy arms in the Warhammer 40,000 galaxy, firing superheated bolts of matter hot enough to vap…
Power ArmourPower armour is a suit of powered battle plate that both protects its wearer and enhances their strength, allowing them to fight, march, and endure fa…
Power AxeA power axe is a member of the power weapon family, an axe whose head is wreathed in the same disruptive energy field that gives the power sword its t…
Power FistA power fist is an armoured gauntlet encased in the same disruptive energy field used by power weapons, turning the wearer's punch into a blow capable…
Power SwordA power sword is a bladed melee weapon sheathed in a shimmering energy field that lets it slice through armour, flesh, and even ceramite with contempt…
Pulse WeaponsPulse weapons are the standard firearms of the T'au Empire, advanced energy arms that combine long range with impressive stopping power. A pulse weapo…
Rail WeaponsRail weapons are among the most powerful and precise armaments fielded by the T'au Empire, using intense magnetic force to accelerate a solid slug to …
Shuriken CatapultThe shuriken catapult is the quintessential infantry weapon of the Aeldari, an elegant arm that hurls a stream of monomolecular discs at ferocious spe…
Splinter WeaponsSplinter weapons are the favoured anti-infantry arms of the Drukhari, firing swarms of needle-thin crystalline shards coated in virulent poisons. Rath…
Storm ShieldThe storm shield is a heavy defensive shield fitted with an energy field generator that projects a protective barrier, allowing its bearer to turn asi…
Terminator ArmourTerminator armour is the heaviest and most protective personal wargear commonly fielded by the Space Marines, a hulking suit of powered plate built fo…
Tesla WeaponsTesla weapons are another class of arcane Necron armament, unleashing living arcs of lightning that leap hungrily from one target to the next. When a …
The Nova CannonThe nova cannon is one of the most powerful ship-borne weapons in the Imperial Navy, a titanic spinal gun that runs through the length of a warship an…
The Vortex GrenadeThe vortex grenade is one of the rarest and most catastrophic weapons in the Imperial arsenal, a device that tears open a rift into the seething energ…
Thunder HammerThe thunder hammer is a massive powered warhammer that discharges a devastating blast of energy at the moment of impact, releasing a thunderclap of fo…
Volkite WeaponsVolkite weapons are an ancient and half-lost class of thermal ray weapon dating from humanity's earliest golden age of technology, prized for their ab…
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Chaos Daemons
BloodletterThe Bloodletter is the foot-soldier of the Blood God's infernal legions, the lesser daemon of Khorne given form from the boiling rage of murder and sl…
DaemonetteThe Daemonette is the seductive handmaiden of Slaanesh, a daemon of terrible, alien beauty and razor-crowned cruelty. At first glance it appears allur…
Pink HorrorThe Pink Horror is the cackling lesser daemon of Tzeentch, a creature of capering madness and raw magic that dances upon the battlefields of the 41st …
PlaguebearerThe Plaguebearer is the tallyman of Nurgle, a shambling daemon born from the souls of those who perish in the grip of the Plague God's diseases. Bloat…
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Legion Vehicles and War Engines
Caestus Assault RamThe Horus HeresyThe Caestus Assault Ram was a heavily armoured boarding craft of the Legiones Astartes, purpose-built to smash through the hulls of enemy voidships an…
Cerberus Heavy Tank DestroyerThe Horus HeresyThe Cerberus Heavy Tank Destroyer was a super-heavy armoured vehicle built upon the same colossal chassis as the Spartow-class hulls of the Legiones A…
Deimos RhinoThe Horus HeresyThe Deimos Rhino was the earlier pattern of the Legiones Astartes' ubiquitous armoured personnel carrier, distinguished from the later Mark by its mor…
Dreadclaw Drop PodThe Horus HeresyThe Dreadclaw Drop Pod was an assault craft of the Legiones Astartes, a more sophisticated and versatile cousin of the standard drop pod capable of bo…
Falchion Super-Heavy Tank DestroyerThe Horus HeresyThe Falchion Super-Heavy Tank Destroyer was a towering armoured killer of the Legiones Astartes, built upon the Fellblade super-heavy chassis and arme…
Kharybdis Assault ClawThe Horus HeresyThe Kharybdis Assault Claw was a massive boarding and drop craft of the Legiones Astartes, far larger than the Dreadclaw upon which its design was bas…
Kratos Heavy TankThe Horus HeresyThe Kratos Heavy Tank was a formidable main battle tank fielded by the Legiones Astartes during the Horus Heresy, bridging the gap between the ubiquit…
Proteus Land RaiderThe Horus HeresyThe Proteus Land Raider was an ancient and revered pattern of the Legiones Astartes' most iconic armoured transport, predating the more common Phobos …
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Officio Assassinorum
Callidus AssassinThe Callidus Assassin is the mistress of infiltration and deceit, an operative of the Officio Assassinorum who slays not through firepower but through…
Culexus AssassinThe Culexus Assassin is the most unsettling of the Officio Assassinorum's killers, a pariah born without a soul, a void in the warp that every psyker …
Eversor AssassinThe Eversor Assassin is a living weapon of frenzied slaughter, unleashed by the Officio Assassinorum when subtlety is abandoned and only carnage will …
Vindicare AssassinThe Vindicare Assassin is the master marksman of the Officio Assassinorum, a silent killer who ends the mightiest foes of the Imperium with a single, …
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Tyranids
CarnifexThe Carnifex is a living battering ram grown by the Hive Mind, a vast and heavily armoured monstrosity whose sole purpose is to smash through the enem…
Hive TyrantThe Hive Tyrant is the battlefield commander of the great devouring swarm, a towering synapse-beast bred by the Hive Mind to lead its broods to conque…
LictorThe Lictor is the vanguard assassin of the great devourer, a stealthy horror bred to stalk ahead of the swarm and mark worlds for consumption. Its cha…
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Warp & Chaos
Chaos BoonA Chaos Boon, sometimes called the gift of the gods, is a mutation bestowed by the Dark Gods upon their most devoted or successful champions. To slay …
Chaos CultistA Chaos Cultist is a mortal follower of the Dark Gods, the most numerous and most easily replaced of all the servants of ruin. Drawn from the disaffec…
Chaos SpawnA Chaos Spawn is the wretched end-state of a mortal who has been utterly consumed by the corrupting gifts of the Dark Gods. Where a favoured champion …
Daemon PrimarchA Daemon Primarch is one of the fallen primarchs who has been elevated to the rank of Daemon Prince by the Chaos Gods, uniting the demigod might of th…
Daemon PrinceA Daemon Prince is a mortal champion of Chaos who has been elevated to daemonhood as the ultimate reward for a lifetime of service to the Dark Gods. W…
DaemonhostA Daemonhost is a living being into whose flesh a daemon has been forcibly bound, creating a hideous fusion of mortal body and immaterial entity. Unli…
PossessionPossession is the seizing of a physical body by a daemon, one of the primary means by which the Neverborn breach the barrier between the Warp and real…
The Black CrusadeA Black Crusade is a colossal invasion launched from the Eye of Terror, in which the scattered warbands of Chaos unite beneath a single warlord to hur…
The Dark GodsThe Dark Gods are the four monstrous entities that rule the Warp, better known collectively as the Chaos Gods. Each was born and is sustained by a par…
The Great GameThe Great Game is the eternal, all-consuming rivalry waged between the four great powers of Chaos. Bound by their very natures to oppose one another, …
The ImmateriumThe Immaterium is the parallel dimension of raw psychic energy that lies beneath the skin of the material universe. Known also as the Warp, the Empyre…
The Long WarThe Long War is the eternal, hate-fuelled crusade waged by the Chaos Space Marines against the Imperium of Man and its false Emperor. Born in the fire…
The Mark of ChaosThe Mark of Chaos is a physical or spiritual sign of favour bestowed by one of the Dark Gods upon a devoted servant. It may appear as a brand seared i…
The NeverbornThe Neverborn is the name that daemons give to themselves, a title that captures their strange and terrible nature. Unlike the creatures of the materi…
The Realm of ChaosThe Realm of Chaos is the deepest and most terrible region of the Warp, the domain where the Dark Gods themselves hold court. It is not a place of fix…
The Shadow in the WarpThe Shadow in the Warp is a psychic phenomenon cast by the vast hive fleets of the Tyranids as they descend upon the galaxy. Generated by the countles…
The Warp and SoulsThe Warp and souls describes the intimate and perilous bond between every sentient being and the immaterial dimension. In the setting's cosmology, a s…
Warp TravelWarp travel is the means by which starships cross the impossible distances of the galaxy, plunging out of real space and into the Warp to ride its cur…
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Chaos Space Marines
Chaos LordThe Chaos Lord is a warlord of the damned, a warrior of terrible power and ambition who commands the war-hosts of the Long War. Forged in ten thousand…
Dark ApostleThe Dark Apostle is a high priest of the Ruinous Powers, a fanatical preacher who leads the warriors of Chaos in worship and war alike. Bearing an orn…
DefilerThe Defiler is a monstrous daemon-engine, a spider-like war machine of the damned that skitters across the battlefield on six clawed legs. Wrought in …
ForgefiendThe Forgefiend is a hulking daemon-engine built for ranged annihilation, a beast of iron and possessed metal that stalks the battlefield belching torr…
HelbruteThe Helbrute is the damned counterpart to the loyalist Dreadnought, a towering war machine that entombs a broken Traitor Marine within its armoured sa…
HeldrakeThe Heldrake is a daemon-engine of the skies, a monstrous mechanical dragon that shrieks across the battlefield on ragged metal wings. Forged from the…
Khorne BerzerkerThe Khorne Berzerker is a warrior consumed utterly by the Blood God's rage, a killing machine driven by an unquenchable thirst for slaughter. Bearing …
Lord DiscordantThe Lord Discordant is a fearsome hybrid of warlord and machine-priest, a master of daemon-engines who rides to war atop a serpentine Helstalker mount…
Master of PossessionThe Master of Possession is a sorcerer of the darkest calling, a warp-mage who specialises in tearing open the veil between worlds to drag daemons int…
MaulerfiendThe Maulerfiend is a daemon-engine bred for the brutal frenzy of close assault, a loping monstrosity that hurls itself upon the foe with mindless, fer…
Noise MarineThe Noise Marine is a devotee of Slaanesh whose senses have been so ravaged by excess that only the most extreme stimulation can pierce his deadened n…
ObliteratorThe Obliterator is a nightmarish fusion of Traitor Marine and machine, a hulking horror afflicted by the Obliterator Virus that consumes flesh and met…
Plague MarineThe Plague Marine is the blighted champion of Nurgle, a Traitor Astartes whose body has become a walking reliquary of disease. Bloated and rotting wit…
PossessedThe Possessed are Traitor Marines who have surrendered their bodies to the daemons of the warp, becoming vessels for the immaterial horrors that hunge…
Rubric MarineThe Rubric Marine is a hollow relic of a proud Legion, an empty suit of animated armour that once housed a living warrior. When the sorcerer Ahriman c…
WarpsmithThe Warpsmith is the dark master of the machine among the servants of Chaos, a corrupted counterpart to the Tech-Priests of the Imperium. Trailing a n…
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Concepts
Chaos UndividedChaos Undivided is the worship and service of the dark powers of the Warp as a whole, rather than devotion to any single one of the Chaos Gods. Its fo…
DaemonA daemon is a malevolent entity native to the Warp, the immaterial realm where emotion and belief take on independent form. Rather than being born in …
ExterminatusExterminatus is the sanctioned annihilation of an entire world, invoked when its continued existence is judged a greater threat than its loss. It is t…
Gene-seedGene-seed is the engineered genetic material that transforms an ordinary human recruit into a superhuman warrior. It takes the form of specialised org…
HeresyHeresy is any belief, act, or association judged to betray the sanctioned faith and authority that bind humanity together. In a civilisation that trea…
Kill TeamKill TeamA kill team is a small, hand-picked squad of elite operatives sent to accomplish what whole armies cannot: covert strikes, sabotage, assassinations, a…
PsykerA psyker is an individual whose mind can channel the raw energy of the Warp, the parallel dimension whose tides give rise to all sorcery and psychic p…
The Age of DarknessThe Horus HeresyThe Age of Darkness is the name later chroniclers gave to the years of the Horus Heresy and its immediate aftermath, when the light of the Great Crusa…
The Black RageThe Black Rage is a psychological and genetic affliction unique to the Blood Angels and the brotherhoods descended from their bloodline. Encoded withi…
The Crimson PathThe Horus HeresyThe Crimson Path was the doctrine of ruin embraced by Lorgar and the Word Bearers once the Imperial Truth had failed them — the conviction that only t…
The Death of InnocenceThe Horus HeresyThe Death of Innocence is the name by which later ages remembered the moment the Imperium's hope was broken — the dawning, terrible knowledge that the…
The Edict of NikaeaThe Horus HeresyThe Edict of Nikaea was the Emperor's binding decree, issued after the Council of Nikaea, that outlawed the practice of sorcery within the Legions and…
The Great DevourerThe Great Devourer is a title given to the Tyranids, an immense extragalactic swarm that migrates between galaxies consuming all organic and usable ma…
The Imperial TruthThe Horus HeresyThe Imperial Truth was the founding creed of the Emperor's new order: the conviction that there were no gods, that the supernatural was superstition, …
The Lectitio DivinitatusThe Horus HeresyThe Lectitio Divinitatus was a forbidden text that proclaimed the Emperor of Mankind to be a god, in direct defiance of the Imperial Truth He Himself …
The Red AngelThe Horus HeresyThe Red Angel was the dread epithet earned by Angron, primarch of the World Eaters, as the Age of Darkness drove him ever deeper into slaughter. The n…
The RuinstormThe Horus HeresyThe Ruinstorm was the vast warp tempest conjured by Lorgar and the Word Bearers to sunder the galaxy in half at the height of the war. Kindled through…
Waaagh!Waaagh! is the term for the great migratory war-frenzy of the Orks, part battle cry, part cultural phenomenon, and part psychic force. It describes th…
Warp StormA Warp storm is a violent disturbance in the Warp, the turbulent dimension that underlies faster-than-light travel and all psychic activity. Where the…
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Vehicles
ChimeraThe Chimera is the workhorse armoured transport of the Astra Militarum, carrying squads of Guardsmen into the teeth of the enemy across every warzone …
Land SpeederThe Land Speeder is a swift anti-gravity attack skimmer fielded by the Space Marines, skimming above the battlefield on repulsor engines that grant it…
Predator TankThe Predator is the main battle tank of the Adeptus Astartes, a heavily armoured war machine built upon the ubiquitous Rhino chassis. Where the Rhino …
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The T'au Empire
Crisis BattlesuitThe Crisis Battlesuit is the iconic war-machine of the T'au, a versatile powered exoskeleton that combines the discipline of a Fire Caste warrior with…
Fire WarriorThe Fire Warrior is the disciplined backbone of the T'au military, a soldier of the Fire Caste trained from birth to serve the Greater Good with unwav…
The EtherealsThe Ethereals are the supreme ruling caste of the T'au Empire, a mysterious order of leaders whose authority over the other castes is absolute and unq…
The Farsight EnclavesThe Farsight Enclaves are a breakaway realm of the T'au Empire, founded by the legendary warrior Commander Farsight beyond the eastern reaches of T'au…
The Greater GoodThe Greater Good, known to the T'au as the Tau'va, is the guiding philosophy that unites the T'au Empire in a single, unrelenting purpose. It holds th…
The T'au CastesThe T'au Castes are the rigid social divisions that structure every aspect of life within the T'au Empire. Each caste is born to a purpose, its member…
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Aeldari
FarseerThe Farseer is among the most powerful of the Aeldari, a master psyker who walks the perilous Path of the Seer and gazes down the tangled skeins of fa…
Howling BansheeThe Howling Banshee is the swift and deadly shock-troop of the craftworlds, an all-female warrior aspect that embodies the Aeldari god of the dead and…
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Orks
GretchinThe Gretchin are the small, spindly cousins of the Orks, cowardly and cunning creatures who scurry at the heels of their larger kin. Weak and easily b…
The Ork ClansThe Ork Clans are the great cultural divisions of the Orks, broad affiliations that shape how a greenskin fights, dresses and makes war. Unlike the ri…
The WeirdboyA Weirdboy is an Ork psyker, a rare and unstable greenskin who channels the raw psychic energy generated by the Orks around him. The collective belief…
WarbossThe Warboss is the biggest, meanest and toughest Ork in any warband, a hulking brute who rules through the ancient greenskin law that might makes righ…
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Xenos & Species
HrudThe Hrud are a secretive and little-understood xenos species, nocturnal creatures that dwell in darkness and shun the light of the wider galaxy. Sight…
KabalA Kabal is one of the great piratical power-blocs that dominate the dark city of Commorragh, the primary form of political and military organisation a…
KrootThe Kroot are a species of tall, avian-descended xenos mercenaries, best known as the foremost auxiliaries of the T'au Empire. Lean and rangy, with be…
SquigA Squig, short for squiggly beast, is one of the strange fungal creatures that share the peculiar biology of the Orks. Born from the same spores that …
SynapseSynapse is the psychic network through which the Hive Mind of the Tyranids controls its countless organisms, binding an entire swarm into a single uni…
The C'tanThe C'tan, sometimes called the Star Gods, were beings of pure energy that fed upon the life of stars in the galaxy's distant youth. Vast, immortal, a…
The DemiurgThe Demiurg are a stocky, long-lived xenos species of spacefaring miners and traders, a secretive people who roam the galaxy aboard immense vessels ra…
The EnslaversThe Enslavers are among the most feared and least understood horrors in the galaxy, warp-predators that prey upon the minds and souls of the living. T…
The JokaeroThe Jokaero are a species of xenos that bear an uncanny resemblance to orange-furred apes, yet possess one of the most extraordinary gifts in the gala…
The KrorkThe Krork were an ancient warrior-species engineered in the galaxy's distant past, and are believed to be the mighty ancestors of the modern Orks. Whe…
The Old OnesThe Old Ones were an ancient and immensely powerful reptilian species, believed to have been the first masters of the galaxy in an age unimaginably di…
The RangdanThe Rangdan were a terrible xenos power encountered during the Great Crusade, remembered chiefly for the catastrophic wars fought to destroy them, the…
The Silent KingThe Silent King, once named Szarekh, was the last supreme monarch of the Necrons and the ruler who bound their countless dynasties into a single vast …
VespidThe Vespid are a species of insectoid, winged xenos native to the gas giant colony-world of Vespid, numbered among the auxiliary races of the T'au Emp…
Wych CultA Wych Cult is a gladiatorial society of the Drukhari, one of the great institutions of Commorragh alongside the Kabals. Where the Kabals wage war wit…
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Culture & Doctrine
Hydra DominatusThe Horus HeresyHydra Dominatus was the watchword and creed of the Alpha Legion, a phrase that captured their doctrine of endless contingency and hidden design. Like …
The Destroyer SquadsThe Horus HeresyThe Destroyer squads were the pariahs of the Legiones Astartes, specialist units wielding weapons so abhorrent that their use stained the honour of an…
The MoritatThe Horus HeresyThe Moritat were the isolated killers of the Legions, Space Marines who had drifted so far into the practice of slaughter that they could no longer se…
The Promethean CultThe Horus HeresyThe Promethean Cult was the faith of the Salamanders, a creed of fire and self-reliance drawn from the harsh volcanic world of Nocturne. It taught tha…
The Rite of WarThe Horus HeresyA Rite of War was a formalised doctrine of battle, a codified way of waging conflict that a Legion or its commanders might invoke to reshape an entire…
The Warrior LodgesThe Horus HeresyThe Warrior Lodges were the secret fraternities that spread quietly through the Legions during the Great Crusade, brotherhoods that met beyond the cha…
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Drukhari
Kabalite WarriorThe Kabalite Warrior is the mainstay soldier of the dark kabals of Commorragh, a cruel and disciplined killer who forms the backbone of every raiding …
WychThe Wych is a gladiatorial killer of the dark city, a lithe and acrobatic warrior who hones her lethal art in the blood-soaked arenas of Commorragh. M…
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Necrons
LychguardThe Lychguard are the elite bodyguards of the Necron nobility, silent and unyielding automatons forged to protect the overlords and phaerons who rule …
The Necron DynastiesThe Necron Dynasties are the ancient royal houses into which the Necrons are divided, each a sprawling feudal domain ruled by an undying Phaeron and h…
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The Imperium
Planetary GovernorA Planetary Governor is the supreme Imperial authority upon a single world, charged by the Adeptus Terra with maintaining order, delivering the tithe,…
Sanctioned PsykerA Sanctioned Psyker is a human witch whose latent warp-born powers have been tested, disciplined, and licensed for the service of the Imperium. Drawn …
Space HulkA Space Hulk is a vast, drifting agglomeration of derelict starships, asteroids and wreckage, fused together over centuries by the tides of the Warp. …
The Black ShipsThe Black Ships are the grim vessels of the Imperium tasked with gathering psykers from across the galaxy and bearing them to Holy Terra. Operated by …
The Imperial AquilaThe Imperial Aquila is the double-headed eagle that serves as the supreme symbol of the Imperium of Man, emblazoned upon banners, armour, starships, a…
The Imperial CreedThe Imperial Creed is the state religion of the Imperium of Man, the vast and rigid faith that proclaims the Emperor of Mankind to be the one true God…
The Imperial TitheThe Imperial Tithe is the mandatory tribute that every world of the Imperium must render unto Holy Terra, the price of the Emperor's protection and th…
The Living SaintA Living Saint is a mortal servant of the Imperial faith so blessed by the God-Emperor that they become a vessel of divine power made flesh. Most ofte…
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Adeptus Mechanicus
SkitariiThe Skitarii are the cybernetic foot-soldiers of the Adeptus Mechanicus, the tech-guard legions that defend the forge worlds and march to war in the n…
The Cult MechanicusThe Cult Mechanicus is the ancient techno-religion of Mars and the spiritual foundation of the Adeptus Mechanicus. Its adherents worship the Machine G…
The Motive ForceThe Motive Force is the sacred energy revered by the Adeptus Mechanicus as a manifestation of the Machine God's will, the divine current that animates…
The Quest for KnowledgeThe Quest for Knowledge is the central sacred pursuit of the Adeptus Mechanicus, the eternal endeavour to recover the lost wisdom of the Machine God a…
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Battles & Events
The 13th Black CrusadeThe 13th Black Crusade was the greatest of the assaults launched from the Eye of Terror by Abaddon the Despoiler, heir to Horus and champion of the Ch…
The Age of ApostasyThe Age of Apostasy was one of the darkest internal crises in Imperial history, a period of civil war and religious tyranny that nearly tore the realm…
The Badab WarThe Badab War was a bitter secessionist conflict fought largely between Space Marines, one of the rare occasions when the Emperor's Angels of Death tu…
The Battle of CalthThe Battle of Calth was a treacherous surprise attack during the opening act of the Horus Heresy, in which the Word Bearers Legion fell upon the unsus…
The Battle of MacraggeThe Battle of Macragge was the Imperium's first full reckoning with the tyranid menace, a desperate defence of the Ultramarines' homeworld against a d…
The Council of NikaeaThe Horus HeresyThe Council of Nikaea was the great conclave summoned by the Emperor to judge whether the use of psychic power had any place in His new order. Convene…
The Damocles CrusadeThe Damocles Crusade was the Imperium's first major military response to the rising power of the T'au Empire, launched across the treacherous void of …
The Devastation of BaalThe Devastation of Baal was the harrowing siege of the Blood Angels' homeworld, one of the gravest trials ever to befall that noble Space Marine Chapt…
The Drop Site MassacreThe Drop Site Massacre was one of the most infamous betrayals of the Horus Heresy, a meticulously planned slaughter that gutted the loyalist cause in …
The Fall of CadiaThe Fall of Cadia marks the destruction of the Imperium's most vital fortress world, an event long thought impossible and mourned as one of the darkes…
The First War for ArmageddonThe First War for Armageddon was a daemonic invasion of the great hive world Armageddon, the opening chapter in that planet's long and bloody saga. It…
The Gothic WarThe Gothic War was a sprawling naval conflict of the 41st Millennium, fought when Abaddon the Despoiler launched his Twelfth Black Crusade against the…
The Great RiftThe Great Rift, also called the Cicatrix Maledictum, is a colossal tear in the fabric of reality that split the galaxy from edge to edge, the single g…
The Horus HeresyThe Horus Heresy was the catastrophic civil war that shattered the young Imperium in the closing years of the 31st Millennium, pitting the Emperor's l…
The Indomitus CrusadeThe Indomitus Crusade was the great military undertaking that pulled the Imperium back from the brink of collapse in the wake of the Great Rift. Launc…
The Macharian CrusadeThe Macharian Crusade was the greatest Imperial expansion since the Great Crusade itself, a lightning campaign of conquest led by the brilliant Lord C…
The Nachmund GauntletThe Nachmund Gauntlet is a precarious but vital warp route that threads through the heart of the Great Rift, one of the few reliable passages linking …
The Noctis AeternaThe Noctis Aeterna, the Blackness, was a period of galaxy-wide darkness and terror that fell upon the Imperium when the Great Rift tore open in the wa…
The Octarius WarThe Octarius War was a monstrous conflict born of Imperial hubris, in which two of the galaxy's most terrible xenos species were deliberately set agai…
The Pale WastingThe Horus HeresyThe Pale Wasting was one of the more shadowed calamities of the Age of Darkness, a devastation that fell upon a swathe of the galaxy during the years …
The Plague WarsThe Plague Wars were a devastating series of invasions unleashed upon the realm of Ultramar in the aftermath of the Great Rift, as the forces of decay…
The Psychic AwakeningThe Psychic Awakening was a galaxy-wide surge in psychic power that followed the opening of the Great Rift, a spiritual convulsion as significant as a…
The Sabbat Worlds CrusadeThe Sabbat Worlds Crusade was a vast Imperial campaign to reclaim the Sabbat Worlds, a sprawling cluster of star systems that had fallen to the forces…
The ScouringThe Scouring was the long and bitter campaign that followed the Horus Heresy, in which the loyalist forces of the Imperium hunted the defeated traitor…
The Second War for ArmageddonThe Second War for Armageddon was the first of the great ork invasions to engulf that embattled hive world, and the conflict that raised one of the Im…
The Siege of TerraThe Siege of Terra was the apocalyptic climax of the Horus Heresy, the final and most terrible battle in which the fate of humanity hung in the balanc…
The Siege of VraksThe Siege of Vraks was one of the longest and most terrible campaigns of the 41st Millennium, a seventeen-year struggle to reclaim a single armoury wo…
The Signus CampaignThe Signus Campaign was a deadly trap sprung upon the Blood Angels during the Horus Heresy, engineered to destroy one of the Emperor's most beloved Le…
The Third War for ArmageddonThe Third War for Armageddon was the cataclysmic return of the warlord Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka to the hive world he had failed to conquer once befo…
The Thramas CrusadeThe Thramas Crusade was a protracted campaign of the Horus Heresy fought in the Thramas sector, a war of shadows and attrition between two of the most…
The Unification WarsThe Unification Wars were the brutal campaigns through which the Emperor conquered and united the warring tribes and techno-barbarian states of Terra,…
The Vigilus CampaignThe Vigilus Campaign was a sprawling war for a single strategically vital world, fought at the mouth of the only stable route through the Great Rift. …
The War in HeavenThe War in Heaven was a cataclysmic conflict fought in the unimaginably distant past, tens of millions of years before the rise of humanity, whose con…
The War of the BeastThe War of the Beast was an apocalyptic ork invasion that struck the Imperium roughly a century after the Horus Heresy, threatening to finish what the…
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The Legions
The Ashen CircleThe Horus HeresyThe Ashen Circle were the iconoclasts of the Word Bearers, warriors charged with the burning of temples, the toppling of idols, and the eradication of…
The Flesh ChangeThe Horus HeresyThe Flesh Change was the terrible affliction that gnawed at the gene-seed of the Thousand Sons, a mutating sickness that warped a warrior's body into …
The Legiones AstartesThe Horus HeresyThe Legiones Astartes were the transhuman warrior-orders forged by the Emperor to prosecute the Great Crusade and reunite the scattered worlds of huma…
The Mor DeythanThe Horus HeresyThe Mor Deythan, the Shadow Masters of the Raven Guard, were an elite cabal of warriors who inherited a rare and uncanny gift from their primarch Corv…
The MorlocksThe Horus HeresyThe Morlocks were the Terminator elite of the Iron Hands, the personal guard of primarch Ferrus Manus and the living embodiment of his creed of pitile…
The Pyre GuardThe Horus HeresyThe Pyre Guard were the honour retinue of Vulkan, primarch of the Salamanders, a brotherhood of master artificers and warriors chosen to stand at thei…
The Vlka FenrykaThe Horus HeresyThe Vlka Fenryka, the Wolves of Fenris, was the name by which the Space Wolves knew themselves in their own harsh tongue, a title steeped in the savag…
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Great Crusade
The Custodian GuardThe Horus HeresyThe Custodian Guard were the golden warriors of the Legio Custodes, the Emperor's personal bodyguard and the most singularly perfected fighting men th…
The Expeditionary FleetsThe Horus HeresyThe Expeditionary Fleets were the great armadas that carried the Great Crusade outward from Terra, mobile war-hosts that swept from system to system b…
The Sisters of SilenceThe Horus HeresyThe Sisters of Silence were the order of psychically-null warrior-women who stood as the Imperium's shield against the corruptions of the warp. Each w…
The Solar AuxiliaThe Horus HeresyThe Solar Auxilia were the elite void-soldiers of the Imperial Army, disciplined human regiments hardened by war beyond the light of any sun. Where co…
The Thunder WarriorsThe Horus HeresyThe Thunder Warriors were the first generation of transhuman soldiers created by the Emperor, forged in the crucible of the Unification Wars to shatte…
The Triumph of UllanorThe Horus HeresyThe Triumph of Ullanor was the greatest celebration of the Great Crusade, a vast victory parade held upon the conquered greenskin world of Ullanor to …
The Unification WarsThe Horus HeresyThe Unification Wars were the brutal campaigns by which the Emperor conquered Terra, welding a world of warring techno-barbarian states into a single …
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Horus Heresy
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Astra Militarum
The Death Korps of KriegThe Death Korps of Krieg are the grimmest soldiers of the Astra Militarum, a regiment born from a world of atomic ruin who march to war seeking not vi…
The Militarum TempestusThe Militarum Tempestus is the elite storm-trooper arm of the Imperial war machine, its Tempestus Scions counted among the finest soldiers to serve al…
The Planetary Defence ForceThe Planetary Defence Force is the standing army of an individual Imperial world, raised and maintained by its planetary governor to defend it against…
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War Machines
The Fellblade Super-HeavyThe Horus HeresyThe Fellblade was a super-heavy battle tank fielded by the Legiones Astartes, a towering war machine that stood among the most powerful armoured vehic…
The Reaver Battle TitanThe Horus HeresyThe Reaver Battle Titan was a medium-class god-machine of the Legio Titanicus, a towering war engine that formed the backbone of many Titan maniples d…
The Sicaran Battle TankThe Horus HeresyThe Sicaran Battle Tank was a fast-attack main battle tank fielded by the Legiones Astartes during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy. Built upon a mo…
The Spartan Assault TankThe Horus HeresyThe Spartan Assault Tank was a massive armoured transport used by the Legiones Astartes throughout the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy. Larger and far …
The Storm Eagle GunshipThe Horus HeresyThe Storm Eagle Gunship was an assault-transport aircraft used by the Legiones Astartes during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy. Larger than the nim…
The Typhon Heavy Siege TankThe Horus HeresyThe Typhon Heavy Siege Tank was a super-heavy siege engine of the Legiones Astartes, built upon the same massive hull as the Spartan and Fellblade but…
The Warhound Scout TitanThe Horus HeresyThe Warhound Scout Titan was the smallest and swiftest class of battle Titan fielded by the Legio Titanicus during the Horus Heresy. Where its greater…
The Warlord TitanThe Horus HeresyThe Warlord Titan was among the largest and most powerful of the god-machines fielded by the Legio Titanicus, a walking fortress whose appearance coul…
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Rank
The Legion ConsulThe Horus HeresyA Legion Consul was a specialist officer of the Legiones Astartes during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy, appointed to fulfil a distinct battle…
The Master of SignalThe Horus HeresyThe Master of Signal was a Consular officer of the Legiones Astartes responsible for coordinating a Legion's communications, sensor-nets, and access t…
The Primus MedicaeThe Horus HeresyThe Primus Medicae was a senior Consular officer of the Legiones Astartes charged with overseeing a Legion's Apothecarion and the care of its warriors…
The Siege BreakerThe Horus HeresyThe Siege Breaker was a Consular officer of the Legiones Astartes who specialised in the reduction of fortifications and the grinding art of siege war…
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Legion Elite
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Military Unit
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