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