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Sigmar is a false god.
Where was Sigmar when darkness fell over all of
creation? Where was Sigmar when reality burst,
and the daemon legions cavorted atop the ruins of
nations? When the gates to Azyr were sealed, it was
not the craven God-King who offered salvation to
those left behind. Only through pledging their souls
to Chaos did the inhabitants of the Mortal Realms
survive that age of terror.
From the Flamescar Plateau in Aqshy to the haunted
Banelands of Shyish, the Slaves to Darkness
dominate the lands. Through acts of ritual carnage
do these men and women seek to ascend the Path to
Glory. At the end of this treacherous road of death
and madness lie rewards beyond imagining – for
those mighty enough to claim them.
As the aftershocks of Nagash’s necroquake ripple
across reality, the Slaves to Darkness muster for war
with a conviction unseen for centuries. Armoured
warriors and barbarous tribesmen crash into melee
in the thousands. The ground shudders in protest
under the charge of fearsome knights and brutish
chariots. Twisted monsters lurch from darkened
caves, foetid breath steaming in the air as they seek
fresh prey.
Leading these damned hosts are the Champions of
Chaos. Be they mighty warrior, wicked sorcerer or
darkling daemon-lord, their infernal might and dark
blessings render them a match for any of Sigmar’s
celestial puppets or Nagash’s deathless revenants.
Above them stands the greatest champion of all:
Archaon the Everchosen, Exalted Grand Marshal of
the Apocalypse. By his will shall the souls of all who
oppose the Ruinous Powers be dragged screaming
before the thrones of the gods.
The Mortal Realms belong to Chaos. So it was.
So it shall always be.
CONTENTS
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CONTENTS
THE HORDES OF CHAOS...4
THE PATH TO GLORY................8
Conquerors of the Realms...........10
The Chaos Gods
............................12
The Endless Pantheons
................14
The Soul Wars
................................16
HOSTS OF DAMNATION
.........18
Lord Infernil’s Reavers.................19
ANNALS OF RUIN....................20
Archaon the Everchosen
..............24
The Varanguard
............................26
Warlords of the Dark Tribes
.......30
Masters of Chaos Magic...............34
The Lost and the Damned
...........38
Warriors of the Blasted Wastes
...40
The Daemonic and
the Monstrous
...............................42
Denizens of the Eightpoints........46
DIABOLIC GLORY
............50
WARRIORS OF THE GODS.....60
PAINTING YOUR
SLAVES TO DARKNESS
...........62
ARMIES OF DARKNESS
...66
ALLEGIANCE ABILITIES
........67
Slaves to Darkness
........................67
Ravagers..........................................70
Cabalists
.........................................72
Despoilers.......................................74
Host of the Everchosen
................76
Battleplan: The Threshold
of Damnation
................................78
PATH TO GLORY......................80
Slaves to Darkness
Warband Tables
............................82
WARSCROLLS
...........................84
Chaos Horde
..................................84
Godsworn Champions of Ruin...85
Godswrath Warband
....................85
Ruinbringer Warband
..................85
Bloodmarked Warband
...............86
Fatesworn Warband
.....................86
Plaguetouched Warband
.............86
Pleasurebound Warband
.............87
Overlords of Chaos
.......................87
Archaon the Everchosen
..............88
Varanguard
....................................89
Gaunt Summoner on
Disc of Tzeentch
............................90
Chaos Lord on Manticore............91
Chaos Sorcerer Lord
on Manticore
.................................92
Chaos Lord on
Daemonic Mount
..........................93
Chaos Lord on Karkadrak...........94
Chaos Lord.....................................95
Chaos Sorcerer Lord.....................95
Exalted Hero of Chaos
.................96
Ogroid Myrmidon
........................96
Be’lakor...........................................97
Slaves to Darkness
Daemon Prince..............................98
Darkoath Warqueen
.....................99
Darkoath Chieftain
......................99
Theddra Skull-Scryer
.................100
Godsworn Hunt
..........................100
Chaos Warshrine
........................101
Chaos Chosen..............................102
Slaves to Darkness
Chaos Spawn................................102
Chaos Chariots............................103
Gorebeast Chariots.....................103
Chaos Knights
.............................104
Chaos Warriors
...........................105
Chaos Marauders
........................106
Chaos Marauder Horsemen
......107
Soul Grinder
................................108
Slaughterbrute
.............................109
Mutalith Vortex Beast................110
Furies
............................................111
Raptoryx.......................................111
Splintered Fang
...........................112
Corvus Cabal...............................112
The Unmade.................................113
Cypher Lords
...............................113
Spire Tyrants
................................114
Iron Golems
.................................115
Untamed Beasts
..........................115
Mindstealer Sphiranx
................116
Fomoroid Crusher
......................116
Eightfold Doom-Sigil
.................117
Darkfire Daemonrift
..................117
Realmscourge Rupture
..............118
PITCHED BATTLE
PROFILES
.................................119
PRODUCED BY THE WARHAMMER STUDIO
With thanks to The Faithful for their additional playtesting services.
Knight of the Fifth Circle (pg 28), The Many Gifts of Godblade (pg 32), The Weight of Sacrifice (pg 36)
and Echoes of Eternity (pg 44) written by Aaron Dembski-Bowden.
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From the back of his dread steed Dorghar, Archaon leads the armies of the Dark Gods to
further conquests, the bedrock of the Mortal Realms warping beneath their tread.
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THE HORDES OF CHAOS
THE HORDES OF CHAOS
Where the worshippers of the Dark Gods march, the Mortal Realms tremble. Under the gaze of their dread
pantheon, the Slaves to Darkness carve their way through all who stand before them in pursuit of glory. At their
head stride some of the most powerful servants of Chaos, forever seeking new challenges and conquests.
Clad in hellish iron and wielding
cruel rune-marked blades, the Slaves
to Darkness spread war across
the Mortal Realms. To look upon
them is to witness the doom of
civilisation made flesh; barbarous
tribes march alongside chosen
warriors swollen with the favour of
the gods. Their weapons glow with
baleful light, while ragged banners
bearing twisted sigils snap in the
hot air. As the hordes of the damned
crash into the enemy, the roars of
fell monsters assault the senses,
their very presence warping the
lands around them into forms of
unrecognisable horror.
Yet even these are not the most
dreaded warriors of the ruinous
hosts. That dark honour belongs
to the Champions of Chaos.
Brutish chieftains, fallen knights
and cunning sorcerers vie to earn
the favour of the gods, their lives
dedicated to battle and carnage in
pursuit of divine favour.
As they slay in the name of the Dark
Powers, these champions accrue
blessings granted by their godly
masters. Their bodies are twisted to
better suit the whims of their patron,
and the aura of power that surrounds
them – not to mention the spreading
tales of their glorious slaughters and
malevolent exploits – draws fellow
worshippers of Chaos from across
the lands to join their warbands. The
more glory they reap for their god,
the more rewards they shall earn,
and the larger their conquering hosts
will grow.
For all their great power, the
majority of Chaos Champions
nevertheless meet a grim end. Those
who fall in battle are the lucky ones,
though their souls are destined to be
dragged to the Realm of Chaos and
consumed by the thirsting gods. For
many, the ‘gifts’ of the gods prove
too much to bear, their minds and
bodies sundered by the power of
raw Chaos flowing through them.
The fate of these great warlords is to
devolve into little more than hideous
spawn-things. Yet even this horrific
end is not enough to dissuade many
aspiring champions from stepping
upon the Path to Glory. For a rare
few, those who consistently please
the gods and possess the strength of
will to master their dark blessings,
the ultimate reward awaits –
immortality as one of the feared
Daemon Princes, and an eternity of
battle in the name of Chaos.
Death, spawndom or daemonhood
– in the end every worshipper of
Chaos, from the lowliest Marauder
to the mightiest Champion, will
meet one of these three fates. There
is no act, no matter how heinous
or vile, that these damned souls
will not commit in pursuit of
glory everlasting.
Dark Gods intermittently pierce the
horizon and radiate a sinister aura.
It is doubtful that such a traveller
would ever leave those lands, for
the worshippers of the Dark Gods
relish meting out brutality upon
those they deem trespassers. The
weakling servants of the God-King
may claim that they are reclaiming
their rightful lands, but the Slaves
to Darkness see things differently
– in their eyes, it is these outsiders
and upstarts who are the invaders,
and who would contest the rightful
domain of the gods.
‘What is best in all creation? To crush
the weak. To burn their lands to
blackened cinder. To catch the gaze of
the Powers Beyond. These things, and
these things alone.’
- Kardok Varx, Lord of the
Thrice-Born Horde
TRIUMPH OF DARKNESS
Were a cartographer foolish enough
to venture into the tortured lands
beyond Sigmar’s nascent cities, they
would soon find themselves in the
domains of the Slaves to Darkness.
Here the scent of death lingers
on the wind, and the ground is
wracked with tectonic agony. Piles
of stacked skulls dot the landscape
where the hordes of Chaos have
passed. Mutated carrion birds circle
in search of fresh prey, while grim
monoliths raised in tribute to the
The Slaves to Darkness are the most
widespread human inhabitants of the
Mortal Realms, particularly in more
primal realms such as Aqshy and
Ghur. The dead certainly outnumber
them, as do the skaven, the grots
and the Beasts of Chaos, yet none of
these have conquered so vigorously
as humanity. In many cases these
mortals assemble into barbarous
tribes, yet amongst their number
are also fallen arcane sects, cursed
knightly orders and degenerate cults.
It is they, not the children of Sigmar,
who typify the masses of humanity
found in the Mortal Realms. Across
battlefields filled with deathly
energies, sorcerous technology and
incarnate deities, they fight with
sharpened axes and faith in their
gods, bartering their souls in return
for the power not merely to survive
such constant war, but to thrive in it.
The Age of Chaos – during which the
Pantheon of Order was broken and
the legions of the Dark Gods burst

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