Species & Races
The myriad intelligent kindreds of Warhammer 40,000: the peoples, breeds, and stranger things that walk the setting.
- Xenos beast
Ambull
Massive burrowing predators of desert worlds, tunnelling through rock with adamantium claws to erupt beneath unwary prey in a spray of stone.
- Abhuman strain
Beastmen (Abhuman)
Bestial, horned abhumans born of mutation, despised across the Imperium yet flung into its wars as expendable and savage shock fodder.
- Xenos species
Demiurg
Stout, ancient void-miners who roam the galaxy in vast stronghold-ships, trading and delving for minerals across countless star systems.
- Warp entities
Enslavers
Predatory warp-entities that breach into reality through unguarded minds, puppeting the living into zombie thralls to tear reality further open.
- Tyranid organism
Genestealer
Clawed vanguard organisms of the Hive Mind whose infectious kiss corrupts entire worlds from within, seeding cults to welcome the devouring swarm.
- Xenos species
Hrud
Shrouded, migratory xenos whose very presence warps time and rots matter, aging all around them into dust and decay.
- Xenos species
Jokaero
Orangutan-like savants whose instinctive genius for technology surpasses the Imperium's finest minds, though they show no sign of true intelligence.
- Xenos species
Kroot
Avian mercenary carnivores who devour their foes to steal useful traits, evolving deliberately across the stars in service of the highest bidder.
- Xenos species
Loxatl
Amphibious, gliding mercenary reptiles who fight in silent broods and are paid in flesh, sound, and stranger currencies still.
- Human mutant strain
Navigator
Sanctioned mutants with a third warp-eye, guiding the Imperium's ships through the immaterium by the light of the Emperor's Astronomican.
- Xenos species
Nicassar
Ursine psykers of a frozen world who guide living voidships through the stars by the sheer force of their patient minds.
- Abhuman strain
Ogryn
Towering, slab-muscled abhumans of simple mind and fierce loyalty, prized by the Imperial Guard as living battering rams and shock troops.
- Xenos species
Q'orl
Insectoid hive-dwellers ruled by a swarm-mind queen, whose rigid warrior-castes wage relentless war for their sprawling empire of Bhotan.
- Xenos species
Rak'Gol
Ravening reptilian marauders of the Koronus Expanse who mutilate themselves with crude cybernetics and slaughter without apparent motive.
- Abhuman strain
Ratling
Small, nimble abhumans with a gift for marksmanship and mischief, serving the Imperial Guard as unmatched snipers and incorrigible scavengers.
- Abhuman strain
Squats (Kin)
Stout, long-lived abhumans of the deep void, whose ancestor-guided Leagues delve for resources and answer any slight with cold, ruthless force.
- Xenos species
Vespid
Insectile winged aliens from crystalline gas-giant colonies, bound to the Greater Good by translation-collars few among them truly comprehend.
- Xenos species
Zoat
Enigmatic centauroid beings, seemingly wrought from Tyranid bio-matter yet possessed of gentleness and free will their makers never intended.