Fear the unknown! As the origin of the term, it's no surprise that is a setting positively drowning in horror.. • In brief, the whole game. On this page, we have named every fighting force, every faction, some of the most significant aspects of the setting, the resident death worlds, and even a food production plant. It's a brutal, horrific place, with more atrocities in a year than we see in a millennium, but remember that in Warhammer 40000, Or at least, there have been enough instances where that the 'ask questions' part of 'shoot first and ask questions later' was forgotten.

That should tell you something about what you're about to find. • Nurgle loves his followers, he really does.

The design of mechanical toys and automata. 2.1 Automaton Design and Mechanical Engineering. The history of mechanical automata in the West can be traced back at least as far as the first century A.D. And the work of Hero of Alexandria [5]. The ensuing centuries saw a continuation of this early work in the creation of. A starship is not an independent entity—no more than a jet plane is independent just because it can leave the ground. Imagine for a moment, a fully loaded 747 jet.

And he'd probably be jolly good grampy to you, if you'd just join up. It just so happens he shares his love by you end up a bloated rotting zombie-like thing which is in so much pain that it can't feel any other pain. But Papa Nurgle loves you, so it's all fine. • And they love it. Other servants of Chaos are intensely suffering or blindingly insane or 'merely' a mindless spawn, but Nurgle followers genuinely enjoy being followed by clouds of plague flies and having their organs dragging on the ground, and nothing would please them more than giving you a biiiiig hug so you can enjoy it too. Come to Papa Nurgle~ • It is similar in some ways to, where all citizens get to be brainwashed by the oppressive Party and end up worshiping the very organization that has made their lives miserable. Sure, the specifics of the methods to that result may be different, but still, Nurgle and transforms you into a mindless zombie drone worshipping diseases.

•, perhaps the most gruesome of the nightmarish Chaos powers, infects almost all of his followers and can be transferred with a single touch, inflicting the poor victim with a concoction perfected by Nurgle himself to cause the most agony while still keeping them from death, many pledging themselves to Nurgle just to end their suffering. It also, each person killed by the Rot in Nurgle's 'garden', the more they resist death merely resulting in a more powerful Plaguebearer. Oh, and said garden may include one very special favored guest, who Nurgle force-feeds all his creations to just to see how powerful and harmful they are. • Who is the above special guest? The only being able to cure Nurgle's creations, Isha, the Eldar goddess of life. And she's still better off than with her previous 'suitor,' Slaanesh, about whom see below. But since she can cure any of Nurgle's creations, that means she cannot die, so the experiments will never stop.

• Plague Marines. Dark, bubbling, deep, filthy, scary.

[rasp] and Decay. [wet gagging]. • The Death Guard. Take the best qualities of the Space Marines, combine them with 28 Days Later style zombies, and you'll have something akin to a Death Guard trooper.

Scariest of all (both in tabletop and in fiction), they are - they'll never stop coming at you until you're either a festering mass of plague or dead. And the Plague Marines? The Death Guard is basically an entire Legion of them. • Beasts of Nurgle are abhorrent, sluglike creatures dripping with toxic ooze, spurting dangerous gases from chimneys on their back and dribbling acidic spittle. But these things are not insane, dribbling wrecks - they have the minds of cute, playful puppies, who only wish to give the enemy bone-crushing hugs and slobber all over them. As if this wasn't bad enough, they have no concept of death - once they kill, they are momentarily disappointed by the fact, then ooze over to another foe to make a new friend.

• The Rot Flies of Nurgle. Sometimes, a Beast of Nurgle starts resenting that all its human playmates either won't play or actually chase it back to the Warp. And that resentment just builds and festers until the Beast spins a cocoon and pupates. What hatches is a monstrous, plague-ridden, slime-dripping fly-daemon that is now actively malicious and cruel. They favor going for the heads of their enemies; either snipping them off with giant mandibles or using a disgusting proboscis to suck their victim's head so hard they slurp out the entire spine in one gulp.

They digest these skulls inside their foetid bellies and then spit them as projectiles. But some people, they hold a special grudge against. These people?

The Rot Fly swallows them whole, trapping them inside its worm-riddled, stinking, pustulent guts forever. He'll give you,, which translates into.

All he asks for is blood. Lots of blood., yours - he isn't picky. Khorne cares not from whom the blood flows, only that it does. • His Greater Daemons, Bloodthirsters, are the most feared beings in an entire galaxy of,,; even the Grey Knights are wary to speak the names of the most powerful ones. Invigorated by the might of Khorne himself, their exceeds all but the Primarchs, and they are, more often than not leading their own army of ravenous daemons that share their desire for blood and carnage. • Ever heard of? A Daemon Prince from the Dark Age of Technology, recruited by Khorne in his younger days.

Assumes him to be any one of a number of warlords, unless he has • Tzeentch, god of,, and the Install Centos Xen Server there. . He'll grant you beyond your wildest dreams,, and. Unfortunately, he's called the Changer of Ways for a reason, so you might Since Tzeentch is above all else a god of, despite his patronage, especially if your mutations go so out of control you regress into a mewling, mindless Chaos Spawn. But don't worry.. • The Thousand Sons Legion learned this. Soon after being banished to the, all of them began accumulating so many mutations that some weren't so much 'unrecognisable' as 'oh god oh god what the hell is that'.

Their most powerful Ahriman cast a massive spell in an effort to prevent certain destruction, and he succeeded in halting the mutations by converting most of the Legion to dust and sealing them inside their armour forever, transforming them into. However the spell also turned the of the minority with even a little psychic power, so it's all good. • The best part is that the Thousand Sons primarch turned to Chaos (and Tzeentch) to save his legion from extermination. At the end he learns that Ahriman's fiasco was all part of Tzeentch's plan. • Every time the Thousand Sons commit some sort of atrocity, remember this: Primarch Magnus the Red tried to warn the Emperor of Horus' treachery via sorcery, which the Emperor didn't like so much, and thought that his favorite Primarch betraying him was preposterous.

Instead, he believed Magnus was trying to betray him and sent Leman Russ to 'arrest' him and bring him to Terra. Sure, Horus convinced Russ to try and kill Magnus, but considering how the Space Wolves regard sorcery, this was about as good an idea as sending a lynch mob to arrest a child rapist. • Also think about the Tzeentchian Greater Daemons, the Lords of Change. They have the power to rip souls from the strongest of men with but a glance, tear tanks in half with their immense magical knowledge, and many mortals mistake them for being omniscient from all that they know about virtually anything. And worst of all is that they can see into the immediate future because Tzeentch sends it to them, so they're nearly impossible to kill. And if you do kill one?

That's only because Tzeentch sent it false images of the future and let you kill it. Congratulations: you just furthered the plans of Tzeentch. • Another Greater Daemon of Tzeentch is Fateweaver, once the most powerful of Tzeentch's Lords of Change - until Tzeentch hurled him into the Well of Eternity, where the events of all time both begin and end, in an effort to gain perfect knowledge of all things. This had killed every Lord of Change prior to Fateweaver, and reduced him to a hunched and weakened shadow of his former self. It even forced the growth of a second head, and both heads answer any question asked of Fateweaver..

Tzeentch has a few dozen Lords of Change on hand to record every word he says just to make sure they don't miss anything. • And the Changeling, who has such absolute control over his ability to shapeshift that he's lost his original form.

Only Tzeentch knows what it is, and he doesn't tell him to keep his control over him. That doesn't stop him from being an exquisite in the name of Tzeentch. Once, a rogue Imperial governor summoned the Changeling and asked for an artifact to break the siege that the Dark Angels were laying upon him. The Changeling handed him a device, then vanished - and was replaced by a squad of Terminators. He'd handed the governor a teleport homer. Broke the siege, though not the way the governor wanted. • And do you know what Tzeentch's ultimate plan is?

He doesn't have one! Tzeentch is the very embodiment of scheming and change and transformation; he doesn't need a goal to achieve.

He exists, literally, just to meddle with things and see what happens; he can never lose because he's not trying to win. No matter what the outcome is, so long as something keeps happening, Tzeentch is winning — he's just got to set the wheels in motion so that the universe keeps changing.

• In a way, that's a bit (however tiny) of good news for everyone else, because if he did have some ultimate diabolical goal (such as enslaving the souls of ALL humanity at once), he could easily do so since he obviously has the power and especially foresight for it. Thank the Emperor that he's too 'random' for that. • And then we have Slaanesh, the Dark Prince of Pleasure.

Give you sensations beyond your imagination, and beyond mortal understanding, which your warped body will eventually become acclimated to,, even as your senses become dull. Eventually you'll be undertaking ever-more disgusting atrocities in an attempt to stir your jaded emotions, while you hardly feel anything at all. • The Emperor's Children Legion serves Slaanesh exclusively, and are essentially versions of Dark Eldar as a result. During the siege of Terra, when the other Legions were assaulting the Imperial Palace, they decided their time was best spent killing millions of the planet's inhabitants to convert them into, thousands more slaughtered to.

In the ten thousand years since then they have performed more successful raids than any other Legion, devoted not to revenge or conquest or conversion but to. And unlike the Dark Eldar, they don't do it to prevent their soul being eaten; they just love it.

• And then there's. See, sometimes the deamon won't just jump into one's head and take over. If it's Slaaneshi there's a good chance it will first have some fun with you. In Fulgrim's case, first it dug out all of his insecurities and convinced him his best friend was jealous of him. Then it convinced him to kill his best friend, and then.

And then it didn't destroy Fulgrim's mind, because it wanted him to watch what it would do, 'cause his suffering would be fun. • It gets even worse. All of the atrocities 'Fulgrim' committed over the centuries afterwards just kept getting more and more horrific and flamboyant as time passed. Killing his best friend just knocked down the last barrier between any semblance of sanity and embracing full-on corruption. Even though he got bodyjacked for a time, Fulgrim, in the end, turned out to be stronger-willed and more debased than a daemon that was depravity incarnate! He turned the tables and did all of his horrors himself! • Oh, and that 'previous suitor' of Isha under Nurgle's section?

That's Slaanesh. One wonders which is worse for a goddess of healing: being the captive of the god of sadomasochistic hedonism, or of the god of pestilence and decay. • At least Nurgle was rescuing her, which is saying something.

He was able to do so while Slaanesh was busy slaughtering the rest of the Eldar pantheon. And she uses her position to whisper cures to Nurgle's diseases to mankind.

• All of the Chaos Gods have Chaos Marines devoted specifically to them. Slaanesh's are the Noise Marines; so jaded and burnt out that they can't 'feel' anything any more. So they take to the battlefield wielding, because the resultant cacophony is the only thing that can provoke any reaction in them any more. These have absolutely horrific effects on anyone they hit with them — imagine a sound so that your flesh literally melts off your body from the vibrations. These even managed to be creepy when the official models for them sported. • Quoth a Slaaneshi Lord. • The outcast chaos god, Malal,.

Mentioned in early Warhammer fluff (including a series of comic books) and then stricken from the setting for copyright reasons, Malal favors single, powerful worshipers rather than armies, and has a special place in the Pantheon — Yes, Malal is the chaos god of all destruction, including self destruction — his modus operandi is to pick one particularly powerful chaos champion,, and then empower him with as much of his own energy as he can get away with — something that he steals back,, from the worshiper. The resulting carnage is one of the only things keeping the other four chaos gods at bay. • While Malal has been stricken from the fluff, the most recent Chaos army books have added The Sons of Malice note Malal is an Eastern Indian word for Malice, a special Chaos Space Marine army with Malal's color scheme. The story behind the SOM is horrifying in and of itself — they were particularly loyal Space Marines from a somewhat feral world, except that they had a specific knack for, and their home planet had a thing for victory celebrations. A particularly puritanical Inquisitor happened to watch one of these celebrations, and while completely ignoring the similar rituals of other, more established (and thus, protected against a single inquisitor going against them) chapters, had them personally declared traitors and their homeworld — something that is heavily insinuated could happen to any other loyalist chapter who happens to get the wrong Inquisitor visiting them — in fact, it's implied that the only thing that caused the Sons of Malice to fall was the fact that they didn't kill the Inquisitor fast enough.

In other words, the Sons of Malice and the millions of people living on their homeworld were screwed over by the Warhammer 40000 version of an. • It's more violent than most cannibalistic chapter rituals. In the short story The Labyrinth from Heroes of the Space Marines, they are depicted eating slaves alive. The rest of The Labyrinth is quite scary, what with the of the transformed marines and it ends with the protagonist, having run the titular Space Hulk's gauntlet, being sacrificed with the ten other victors to summon Malice (renamed due to copyright) himself. • Another thing about Sons of Malice.

They have continued a war against both the Imperium and the armies of Chaos at the same time, for centuries and winning most of their engagements, while being insanely outnumbered and outgunned and without any daemons or heavy support. How the hell they can accomplish this nobody knows, mostly because there are usually no survivors. • There are also some implications, that Sons of Malice are seemingly acting like a beacon for all worshippers of Malal as they are often supported by solid numbers of cultists and fallen guardsmen, not to mention mutants. • The worse part about all 5 Chaos gods? All Chaos gods can be taken as corrupted versions of otherwise positive emotions: • Slaanesh as a corruption of Love or Happiness. As long as someone loved another, they're contributing directly to Slaanesh. And if they loved even a bit too much, they may be approached, and the corruption shall begin.

• Khorne as a corruption of Bravery or Glory in the universe where there is only war. • Tzeentch as a corruption of Hope or Wisdom. Any who hope for deliverance, any who wish to learn more to make a better tomorrow, will fall into Tzeentch's clutches. • Nurgle as a corruption of Acceptance or Friendship. Friendship is pretty much guaranteed between people. Does 'Acceptance' sounds familiar? Descargar Mario Party 9 Wii Iso Espaol Download Free.

It's the central dogma of most of the uncountable masses of the Imperium. • Malal is a corruption of Justice. It's specifically stated that anyone who hunts Chaos too effectively, anyone who lets the hunt consume them, has a chance of being approached by Malal. • This also resulted in one of the biggest horrors in the form of Castellan Crowe: to keep his Daemon-blade inert and safe, Crowe basically eschewed every part of his life. He feels no joy from victory, no sense of camaraderie, no fulfillment or desires. He is not even allowed to feel sadness at all of this, and is locked away in a solitary room whenever not on duty.

One of the few servants of the Imperium who can possess a Daemon Weapon without corruption, but he can no longer be anything. And even then, it's implied that Crowe is helped out by the Emperor himself, as well as an inborn self-discipline that no other Grey Knight can ever aspire to. • In the novella Aurelian, Ingethel the Ascended tells Lorgar, whose Legion masterminded the Horus Heresy, that those who worship the Chaos Gods will be accepted into their power, and those who reject the Chaos Gods will be devoured by daemons. This concept of the afterlife is a major part of Chaos Undivided, and is why the Word Bearers pride themselves on knowing the truth. Unfortunately, it's also.

In Deliverance Lost, during the aftermath of the Drop Site Massacre, a Word Bearers vessel trailing the Raven Guard's last battle-barge gets pulled into the Warp. Do those within, who have dedicated their lives and souls to the Chaos Gods, get taken to a pleasant afterlife? They're devoured and tormented by daemons just as much as someone who rejects Chaos. There's a reason Chaos is dubbed 'The Bad Guys' of the series. It's because the Chaos Gods literally don't give a damn about their followers. • The Chaos Gods themselves represent corrupted Chaos, not just chaos itself. As mentioned elsewhere, Chaos is affected entirely by the emotions of sentient beings in real space.

Ever wonder why Chaos is and not? It's because that the galaxy and every living thing in it are just.

The fact that all factions are,,,, is why Chaos is the absolute worst of all of them. No one will ever 'win' Warhammer 40000, because evil itself exists and it has already won. It won a long time ago.

• Although canonicity can be there is a general timeline that shows three of the current Chaos Gods coming into full being somewhere between the eighth and fifteenth millennium. This is also the time-frame when Mankind first began to prolifically expand into the stars, and saw an unprecedented boom in population numbers.

Before this point, the Warp was of course Chaotic, but good gods (such as the Eldar pantheon) existed as often as evil ones. After this point it became infinitely more hellish.

Although not explicitly stated, it's implied that the current state of the Warp, and indeed the very EXISTENCE of three of the four gods, is due to our high Warp presence and tumultuous minds. • It should be noted that all sources of canon only refer to the Milky Way. While Mankind has become top predator of the Milky Way, following in the wake of countless races before them, it is implied that few if any races managed to get to other galaxies (the only known being to try is the Silent King of the Necrons during his attempted exodus). While this implies that the warp may be less tumultuous in other parts of the galaxy, it also make the Tyranids more scary (see below). That Necron King stopped his self-exile out of fear for the entire galaxy when the Tyranids came to the Milky Way, becoming the first known species of intergalactic travelers. Note that these purely biological creatures succeeded where other species failed.

Species that were so technologically advanced that they were considered virtual gods. • Among all that, there is still one more lingering fact; those 5 named chaos gods are simply the most powerful of the chaos gods. Some of the more pessimistic delvers of hidden knowledge have concluded that when the Emperor of Mankind dies (and he will) the resultant Fall of Mankind to Chaos will not only open a rift into the Warp the size of the entire Galaxy but will create the final and mightiest Chaos God, who will corrupt, torture and enslave all remaining sentient life as they descend en masse into a screaming, eternal hell. Sweet dreams. • Also note that provided more information about this subject (if they are considered canon and the information brokers weren't lying) in both the and series. In the Eisenhorn's series, a demon speaks of a Demon King who at one time was a rival to Tzeentch who, while independent, sought to topple the Lord of Tricks. Implying that the gods could be killed and replaced.

Furthermore, the in Ravornor claims to worship the Eight. He seems to imply that there a total of 8 chaos gods (of mankind, so not counting Gork and Mork [dual gods of the Orks] or the C'tan [who are really just ]).

The four major gods are the most powerful while Malice would be the strongest or most influential of the 'weak gods'. It is unknown how these hypothetical weak gods would compare to the Daemon Prince Champions of the major gods. Note 'Ans'l, Mo'rcck and Phraz-Etar are minor Chaos deities.

Chaos Space Marines were rumored to praise them by putting spikes on their Power Armour. Their names are puns on the last names of Bryan Ansell, Michael Moorcock, and Frank Frazetta, writers and artists whose work all contributed to the look and feel of the Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40,000 universes.' The canon of these 'gods' are dubious obviously. • Another of the renegade Chaos gods is Necoho, the Doubter. What does he represent?

The struggle against the very concept of gods or religion. Yes, Necoho is the god of unbelief. While this paradoxical nature means he has a small following and he's not very powerful, his existence alone shows that any attempts to destroy chaos are futile. Even if the entire galaxy were somehow magically convinced that Tzeentch, Nurgle, Khorne, and Slaanesh weren't real, something would take their place.

• ANY named Chaos character is going to be scary. • (pictured top). It's not the fact that he's, or that he has a lab coat. It's the fact that he spent thousands of years floating in the Warp, has pure Warp energy constantly pumped into him, and he still doesn't worship any of the Chaos Gods. In fact, he's stated that they have no more to.

People aren't supposed to make bargains with the. That is not how it works. • There's one story about how he was captured by the Dark Elder and taken to Commoraugh, but he so impressed them with his knowledge of inflicting pain that they let him go, and allowed him to study under the. In sum, he's so depraved that even a species of immortal, sadomasochistic xenophobes have to respect his cruelty. As has been noted, this is the only time this has ever to anyone.

• There's his ultimate goal, as illustrated in the novels. He's trying to clone the Emperor. The Blood Angels may have set his work back considerably, but as far as he's concerned, it's only a matter of time. • Though he hasn't yet succeeded in his ultimate goal, he has succeeded in growing a perfect, uncorrupted clone of Fulgrim, as illustrated in Fabius Bile: Clonelord. He gave it to Trazyn.

In exchange for the small price of seventeen thousand, four hundred and fifty-six perfectly preserved progenoids of the Third Legion. Now imagine Bile's plans for that. • Technically, his coat is made of Astartes skin. As mentioned below, whether Astartes can be considered human is highly unclear. • Typhus, the Herald of Nurgle and Host to the Destroyer Hive - Warp Flies that can enter your body through any orifice and feast on your innards, multiplying as they do so, until your body actually explodes from the pressure of all the plague-carrying insects inside you. These things swarm around him and obey his every whim.

The Death Guard turned to Nurgle (they were already Chaos) when Typhus becalmed them in the Warp and unleashed the Destroyers after PARALYZING them all, letting them watch their comrades' fate and knowing they were next. • 'As the Destroyer spread throughout the Death Guard fleet, bursting the guts of the hardy space marines, Typhus came uncertainly to his feet and spoke a single gurgling, phlegm-laced word: 'More.' With that word, the flies left their hosts broken and bloated, and entered Typhus’ body like a wave. He remained on his feet, but his body was a hive of pestilence ever after.' • Ever notice how there's never a depiction of Typhus with his helmet off (there is one of him as Typhon, but none after his transformation)?

It's because the transformation of his body into the Destroyer Hive smeared his body into his armor. Under his Terminator Armor he's essentially a living, fleshy honeycomb; his skin long since fused to the inside of his armor. If he thinks you're a, he'll duel you. If he wins, you're dead.

If he loses, you win, but if you feel even an instant of triumph or even mild satisfaction, you end up, being while his. • He's a member of the Emperor's Children, which means he's a on equine growth hormone. Even before the Horus Heresy he'd carved up his own face, linking up the scars of a lifetime of battle to make a jagged irregular pattern, and the first time he lost a duel the codex specifically says, 'Lucius' agonizing death was an experience of transcendent pleasure.' So he's basically as a Space Marine with a thing for dueling. • Angron, Daemon Primarch of the World Eaters Legion.

For one of the handful of times one of the Primarchs returned to the material realm, he descended upon the planet of following an endless stream of daemons and proceeded to destroy everything. An entire 100-man company of Grey Knight Terminators, the very elite of the Grey Knights themselves, who are arguably the greatest Space Marine Chapter in the Imperium specifically trained to, were deployed in response, and almost all of them died, succeeding only in banishing him back to the Warp for 100 years (and a day), at which point he might decide to try slaughtering millions again 'for the Blood God'. And the fact that Grey Knights were able to banish him at all is mostly attributed to the weakening warp storm, which was the only thing supporting Angron and his daemonic hordes' existence. As if the First War of Armageddon wasn't quite enough, it caused Months of Shame, a civil war between the Space Wolves and the Inquisition that cost the Imperium another Grey Knight company, numerous warships, and billions of human lives. • A few thousand years before Armageddon, Angron united tens of thousands of World Eaters to assault the Imperium. Close combat shock troops with almost no support ravaged Imperial space for two centuries before the Imperium withered their force and pushed them back. Angron and his force took over seventy sectors in what was known as the 'Dominion of Fire' and it took a force of four Space Marine Chapters, thirty Imperial Guard regiments, and two Titan Legions to recover what was lost.

Said chapters/regiments/legions spent about three millennia to retake 90% of the conquered territories • And Kharn, nicknamed the Betrayer, is probably the most batshit of of them all. Here is the man who, in a fit of anger, singlehandedly shattered his own Legion's capacity as a fighting force with nothing but a flamethrower. The game reflects this - he's just as likely to go bonkers and start hacking apart his own men if he feels like it. You have been warned.

• It gets 'better'—he also shattered another legion at the same time. The two legions—the World Eaters and the Emperor's Children—were fighting over a daemon world called Skalathrax, and both sides called a temporary cease-fire in light of deathly cold nights on the planet. Kharn, of course, was having none of that, and decided to burn the shelters that had been taken to force both sides fight both enemies and their brethren alike to get place in remaining shelters simply to survive. Ultimately, the legions were fragmented into warbands, and Kharn has since become the embodiment of Khorne's indiscriminate rage. • Recent lore implies that, at one point, Kharn had the chance to walk away from all of it.

A Loyalist Thousand Sons sorceror saw his pain and offered to remove the device that was driving him to rage. Kharn briefly realized what this meant and had considered it, but in a violent psychotic rage butchered the Sorceror.

The Sorceror knew he would not survive Kharn's attack, so instead mentally related to Kharn exactly what his actions meant; Kharn can no longer blame anyone else for his pain and rage, he had the chance to cure it and chose otherwise. It's implied that this revelation broke what was left of Kharn's mind, resulting in the ruthless berserker the galaxy now knows. • Moving away from individuals, the Iron Warriors spent the entire Great Crusade being brutalised by sieges and trench warfare. Now, after the Heresy, they've gone completely nuts and turn every single planet they live on into a super-reinforced stronghold ringed with all sorts of tanks, Dreadnoughts (which are batshit crazy, by the way) and Havocs. Relentless, merciless, and willing to infect themselves with the Obliterator virus (see below).

• One such example of what they're capable of is known as the Iron Cage Incident. They set up base on Sebastus IV containing a keep within 20 square miles of minefields, towers, tank traps, trenches, bunkers and redoubts in order to trap their opposite numbers, the Imperial Fists. The plan starts by isolating the enemy from their orbital support, all the while dividing them up to destroy them one by one. Finally, when the remaining Imperial Fists penetrate the fortress, there's no keep—just. By day six, the Imperial Fists are reduced to fighting individually and using the corpses of their brethren as cover.

The siege continues for three weeks after that. The end result is that the Fists' primarch is left a broken man, the Fists themselves are left unable to fight for nineteen years, and Perturabo (the Iron Warriors' primarch) sacrifices the geneseeds of the fallen enemy to ascend to the status of Daemon Prince.

• The Iron Warriors are arguably the most unpleasant of all the legions for the fact that while the others are amoral and often insane bastards,, or at the absolute least value what they have in a material sense. The Iron Warriors only value their hatred and their opportunities to express it. In the Iron Warriors, astartes and humans alike are just things to be fed to the legion's war apparatus. Nothing is sacred, everyone is expendable, and victory is all that matters, no matter how dirty it has to be won or how many have to die to get it. Is common practice. Even Chaos itself is just seen as a weapon to be used.

• get their giggles from psychologically torturing entire planets. One piece of fiction has them crucifying and eviscerating loyal Assault Marines, then nailing the iron crosses to the front of their tanks. And the Assault Marines were still alive. • In another piece of fiction the Night Lords invaded a hive city (a planet covered in mile high cities) and hacked into the telecommunications networks and broadcast the murder, death and torture as it happened. The Imperium reports after the attack stated that fully one-third of the population died from fear itself. • Also, in the same book, they came up with a plan to shut off all psychic communication and Warp navigation in an enormous area of Imperial space. How they achieved this?

Flaying every astropath on the hive planet, keeping them alive for hours afterwards with medical treatments to prolong their agony, and finally killing them by exposing them to Navigator Octavia's third eye, which released the build-up of psychic energy that their suffering had created. And the strain of that almost killed her as well. • The Night Lords were nuts even before the Heresy. Failing to get enough recruits, the Primarch resorted to.

True, he regrets it at the end and hated what the legion became, but one must remember: the Primarch himself was considered before becoming Primarch, and he hated what the legion has become. It's even suggested that he allowed himself to be killed by an Imperial assassin because he was so deeply and utterly horrified by what he himself had become.

The entire legion basically runs on this trope. • He let himself be killed as vindication; he had been ever since he was a child, with one of the dreams being the exact circumstances of his death. He allowed the assassin into his chambers, watched her walk up, and flat out told her in only slightly more grandiose speech that 'everything I have ever done is proven to be in the right by your presence here.' This includes betrayal of the Imperium, and the. And he's RIGHT. • Said Primach, Konrad Curze, was a combination of,,, and, as a demigod. His Chapter learned well.

• was, in fact, the admitted inspiration not only for his name, but several aspects of his character, including • Kurze's modus operandi was to be the worst person on his planet, so that no one else tried to claim the place. How did he do this? By killing EVERY single criminal in a brutal manner, until the planet's sewers were jammed by their body parts.

• The Night Lords were originally depicted as extra-awful psychopaths back when Space Marines in general were often recruited from maximum security prisons. It was later changed that Space Marine indoctrination had to begin at an age of between 10-12, coinciding with the onset of puberty. The Night Lords are still, canonically, depicted as being gathered up from amongst groups of depraved murderers and maniacs, despite not being old enough to attend high school.

• Word Bearers are the Imperial zealots with. And they're the ones who kicked off the - in other words, the entire fucked up state of the 40K universe?

Lorgar's fault. The entire hell-universe that would give Stephen King night terrors is Lorgar's fault.

Even the Imperium's current state is Lorgar's fault, because he wrote the original Lectitio Divinitatus tract slash holy book. • Backstory from the campaign included a pious individual named, some Vlad the Impaler-style human sacrifice, and seven 'volunteers'. One of the sacrifices chickened out at the last minute, but luckily two of his companions were able to catch him and hoist him onto his pike anyway (in his screams he “issued the fifteenth curse,” which the temple presbyter took as.

Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Etymology [ ] The word 'automaton' is the latinization of the αὐτόματον, automaton, (neuter) 'acting of one's own will'. This word was first used by to describe automatic door opening, or automatic movement of wheeled tripods. It is more often used to describe non-electronic moving machines, especially those that have been made to resemble human or animal actions, such as the jacks on old public striking, or the and any other animated figures on a. History [ ] Ancient [ ].

The book About automata by (1589 edition) There are many examples of automata in: created automata for his workshop; was an artificial man of bronze; used to install voice in his moving statues; King of the employed gold and silver watchdogs. The automata in the were intended as tools, toys, religious idols, or prototypes for demonstrating basic scientific principles.

Numerous water powered automata were built by, a Greek inventor and the first head of the, for example he 'used water to sound a whistle and make a model owl move. He had invented the world's first 'cuckoo' clock'. This tradition continued in Alexandria with inventors such as the mathematician (sometimes known as Heron), whose writings on,, and described, a, a, the, and a programmable cart. The from 150–100 BC was designed to calculate the positions of astronomical objects. Complex mechanical devices are known to have existed in, though the only surviving example is the, the earliest known. It is thought to have come originally from, where there was apparently a tradition of mechanical engineering; the island was renowned for its automata; to quote 's seventh Olympic Ode: The animated figures stand Adorning every public street And seem to breathe in stone, or move their marble feet. However, the information gleaned from recent scans of the fragments indicate that it may have come from the colonies of in and implies a connection with.

According to, used his wisdom to design a with mechanical animals which hailed him as king when he ascended it; upon sitting down an eagle would place a crown upon his head, and a dove would bring him a scroll. It's also said that when King Solomon stepped upon the throne, a mechanism was set in motion. As soon as he stepped upon the first step, a golden ox and a golden lion each stretched out one foot to support him and help him rise to the next step.

On each side, the animals helped the King up until he was comfortably seated upon the throne. In, a curious account of automata is found in the text, written in the 3rd century BC. Within it there is a description of a much earlier encounter between (1023-957 BC) and a mechanical engineer known as Yan Shi, an 'artificer'.

The latter proudly presented the king with a life-size, human-shaped figure of his mechanical handiwork: The king stared at the figure in astonishment. It walked with rapid strides, moving its head up and down, so that anyone would have taken it for a live human being.

The artificer touched its chin, and it began singing, perfectly in tune. He touched its hand, and it began posturing, keeping perfect time.As the performance was drawing to an end, the robot winked its eye and made advances to the ladies in attendance, whereupon the king became incensed and would have had Yen Shih [Yan Shi] executed on the spot had not the latter, in mortal fear, instantly taken the robot to pieces to let him see what it really was. And, indeed, it turned out to be only a construction of leather, wood, glue and lacquer, variously coloured white, black, red and blue.

Examining it closely, the king found all the internal organs complete—liver, gall, heart, lungs, spleen, kidneys, stomach and intestines; and over these again, muscles, bones and limbs with their joints, skin, teeth and hair, all of them artificial.The king tried the effect of taking away the heart, and found that the mouth could no longer speak; he took away the liver and the eyes could no longer see; he took away the kidneys and the legs lost their power of locomotion. The king was delighted. Other notable examples of automata include 's dove, mentioned. Similar Chinese accounts of flying automata are written of the 5th century BC philosopher and his contemporary, who made artificial wooden birds ( ma yuan) that could successfully fly according to the Han Fei Zi and other texts.

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Please help by checking for citation inaccuracies. (January 2012) () The manufacturing tradition of automata continued in the Greek world well into the Middle Ages. On his visit to in 949 ambassador described automata in the emperor ' palace, including 'lions, made either of bronze or wood covered with gold, which struck the ground with their tails and roared with open mouth and quivering tongue,' 'a tree of gilded bronze, its branches filled with birds, likewise made of bronze gilded over, and these emitted cries appropriate to their species' and 'the emperor’s throne' itself, which 'was made in such a cunning manner that at one moment it was down on the ground, while at another it rose higher and was to be seen up in the air.'

Similar automata in the throne room (singing birds, roaring and moving lions) were described by Luitprand's contemporary, who later became emperor, in his book. In the mid-8th century, the first automata were built: 'statues that turned with the wind over the domes of the four gates and the palace complex of the Round City of '. The 'public spectacle of wind-powered statues had its private counterpart in the ' palaces where automata of various types were predominantly displayed.' Also in the 8th century, the, (Geber), included recipes for constructing artificial,, and that would be subject to their creator's control in his coded Book of Stones. In 827, had a silver and golden tree in his palace in, which had the features of an automatic machine.

There were metal birds that sang automatically on the swinging branches of this tree built by and. [ ] The Caliph also had a golden tree in his palace in Baghdad in 915, with birds on it flapping their wings and singing. In the 9th century, the brothers invented a automatic player and which they described in their. An automaton writing a letter in Swiss Museum CIMA. Described complex programmable amongst other machines he designed and constructed in the Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices in 1206.

[ ] His automaton was a boat with four automatic musicians that floated on a lake to entertain guests at royal drinking parties. His had a programmable drum machine with pegs () that bump into little that operate the. The drummer could be made to play different rhythms and drum patterns if the pegs were moved around.

According to Charles B. Fowler, the automata were a 'robot ' which performed 'more than fifty facial and body actions during each musical selection.'

Al-Jazari constructed a automaton first employing the flush mechanism now used in modern. It features a female automaton standing by a filled with water.

When the user pulls the lever, the water drains and the automaton refills the basin. His 'peacock fountain' was another more sophisticated hand washing device featuring humanoid automata as who offer and. Rosheim describes it as follows: 'Pulling a plug on the peacock's tail releases water out of the beak; as the dirty water from the basin fills the hollow base a float rises and actuates a which makes a servant figure appear from behind a door under the peacock and offer soap. When more water is used, a second float at a higher level trips and causes the appearance of a second servant figure — with a towel!'

Elephant automaton at The witnessed a considerable revival of interest in automata. Hero's treatises were edited and translated into Latin and Italian. Created mechanical devils and rocket-propelled animal automata. Numerous clockwork automata were manufactured in the 16th century, principally by the goldsmiths of the of central Europe. These wondrous devices found a home in the or Wunderkammern of the princely courts of Europe. Hydraulic and pneumatic automata, similar to those described by Hero, were created for garden. Sketched a more complex automaton around the year 1495.

The design of was not rediscovered until the 1950s. The robot could, if built successfully, move its arms, twist its head, and sit up. The has in its collection a clockwork monk, about 15 in (380 mm) high, possibly dating as early as 1560. The monk is driven by a key-wound spring and walks the path of a square, striking his chest with his right arm, while raising and lowering a small wooden cross and rosary in his left hand, turning and nodding his head, rolling his eyes, and mouthing silent obsequies.

From time to time, he brings the cross to his lips and kisses it. It is believed that the monk was manufactured by, mechanician to the.

A new attitude towards automata is to be found in when he suggested that the bodies of animals are nothing more than complex machines - the bones, muscles and organs could be replaced with cogs, pistons and cams. Thus became the standard to which and the was compared. In the 17th century was the birthplace of those ingenious that were to become prototypes for the engines of the. Thus, in 1649, when was still a child, an artisan named Camus designed for him a miniature coach, and horses complete with footmen, page and a lady within the coach; all these figures exhibited a perfect movement. According to P. Labat, General de Gennes constructed, in 1688, in addition to machines for gunnery and navigation, a peacock that walked and ate.

Produced many automata to create Jesuit shows, including a statue which spoke and listened via a. A Japanese automata theater in Osaka, drawn in 18th century. The Takeda family opened their automata theater in 1662. The world's first successfully-built biomechanical automaton is considered to be The Flute Player, invented by the French engineer in 1737. He also constructed the, a mechanical duck that gave the false illusion of eating and defecating, seeming to endorse Cartesian ideas that animals are no more than machines of flesh.

In 1769, a chess-playing machine called, created by, made the rounds of the courts of purporting to be an automaton. The Turk was operated from inside by a hidden human director, and was not a true automaton. Is drawing a picture Other 18th century automaton makers include the prolific Swiss (see ) and his contemporary. Maillardet, a Swiss mechanic, created an automaton capable of drawing four pictures and writing three poems. Maillardet's Automaton is now part of the collections at the Science Museum in.

Belgian-born created the mechanism of the automaton, now. A musical elephant made by the French Hubert Martinet in 1774 is one of the highlights of. Is another late-18th century example of automata, made for, featuring a European soldier being mauled by a tiger. According to philosopher,, from 1740 to 1786, was 'obsessed' with automata. According to, 'he put together his armies as a well-oiled mechanism whose components were robot-like warriors'. Adopted automata during the (1603–1867); they were known as. Automata, particularly watches and clocks, were popular in China during the 18th and 19th centuries, and items were produced for the Chinese market.

Strong interest by Chinese collectors in the 21st century brought many interesting items to market where they have had dramatic realizations. • Automaton - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary • Homer,, 5.749 • Homer, Iliad, 18.376 • Him she found sweating with toil as he moved to and fro about his bellows in eager haste; for he was fashioning tripods, twenty in all, to stand around the wall of his well-builded hall, and golden wheels had he set beneath the base of each that of themselves they might enter the gathering of the gods at his wish and again return to his house, a wonder to behold. Homer, Iliad • The automatones of Greek Mythology at the Theoi Project. Astronomica 2.1 • This 'first cuckoo clock' was further stated and described in the 2007 book The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern World by Justin Pollard and Howard Reid on page 132: 'Soon Ctesibius's clocks were smothered in stopcocks and valves, controlling a host of devices from bells to puppets to mechanical doves that sang to mark the passing of each hour - the very first cuckoo clock!'

• Noel Sharkey (July 4, 2007),, 2611, New Scientist • Brett, Gerard (July 1954), 'The Automata in the Byzantine 'Throne of Solomon ', Speculum, 29 (3): 477–487,:,,. • Harry Henderson (1 January 2009).. Infobase Publishing. Retrieved 28 May 2013. The earliest known analog computing device is the Antikythera mechanism. • • Needham, Volume 2, 53.

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'Clockwork Prayer: A Sixteenth-Century Mechanical Monk' Blackbird 1.1 (2002) • Schultz, P.D., & Schultz, S.E. A History of Modern Psychology.(pp. 28-34).Thompson Wadsworth. • • • See Michel Foucault,, New York, Vintage Books, 1979, p.136: 'The classical age discovered the body as object and target of power. The great book of Man-the-Machine was written simultaneously on two registers: the anatomico-metaphysical register, of which Descartes wrote the first pages and which the physicians and philosophers continued, and the technico-political register, which was constituted by a whole set of regulations and by empirical and calculated methods relating to the army, the school and the hospital, for controlling or correcting the operations of the body. These two registers are quite distinct, since it was a question, on one hand, of submission and use and, on the other, of functioning and explanation: there was a useful body and an intelligible body. The celebrated automata [of the 18th century] were not only a way of illustrating an organism, they were also political puppets, small-scale models of power: Frederick, the meticulous king of small machines, well-trained regiments and long exercises, was obsessed with them.'

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Retrieved November 25, 2011. Mechanical curiosities were all the rage in China during the 18th and 19th centuries, as the Qing emperors developed a passion for automaton clocks and pocket watches, and the 'Sing Song Merchants', as European watchmakers were called, were more than happy to encourage that interest. • • • External links [ ].