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To the Hedonites of Slaanesh, the
Mortal Realms are a canvas ripe for their
depraved attentions. With each artful
blade-stroke and clawed caress they seek to
please their deity – the Dark Prince of Chaos.
Slaanesh was born from obsession and vice,
and the rewards for serving him are both the
most exquisite pleasures and blissful agonies.
Yet those who earn his favour soon find it to
be an ashen feast, an empty chalice, for always
more is demanded by this rapacious deity.
Driven ever onwards by hungers never to be
slaked, the Hedonites take to the battlefield as
wild, shrieking carnivals, bringing painful death
and eternal torment to any with the misfortune
of crossing their path.
But all is not well in the Dark Prince’s court.
Slaanesh’s throne sits empty, the god captured
by the vengeful aelven pantheon. The Hedonites
wail at their master’s absence even as they
thrill at the intensity of their grief. Some search
for Slaanesh, rampaging across the realms
at blistering speed in pursuit of clues to his
whereabouts. Others seek to attain the mantle
of divinity for themselves, attracting throngs of
supplicants to sate their egomania – for a time.
Then there are those who continue to reave and
ravage as they had always done, concerned only
with the pursuit of their darkest vices.
With each vile act the Hedonites empower their
lost patron, and a day is coming where Slaanesh
will be strong enough to reclaim the sinful
throne. On that day, the children of the Dark
Prince will cavort across the ruins of all that is
sane and pure, and usher in an age of divine
mania that will last until the stars burn cold.
Rejoice, waifs and wastrels! Scream, sinners and
supplicants! Cry wanton havoc and let ecstatic
madness reign, for the Hedonite hosts come!
CONTENTS
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CONTENTS
THEY WHO SEEK EXCESS . 4
THE DEITY SLAANESH . . . . . . . .8
TO CAPTURE A GOD . . . . . . . . .10
FIENDISH PARADISES . . . . . . . . 12
THE HEDONITE HOSTS ...78
CARNIVALS OF HORROR. . . . . 14
INVADERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
PRETENDERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
GODSEEKERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
THE DARK PRINCE STIRS . . . .22
A LEGACY OF DEPRAVITY. . . . 26
THE DEPRAVED LEGIONS . . . .28
Keepers of Secrets . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Shalaxi Helbane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Heralds of Slaanesh. . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Daemonettes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Chariots of Cruel Desire. . . . . . . . 38
The Decadent Vanguard . . . . . . . . 40
Glutos Orscollion, Lord of
Gluttony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Sigvald, Prince of Slaanesh . . . . .44
Champions of the Dark Prince . .46
Revellers in Ruin . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48
Myrmidesh Painbringers. . . . . . . 50
Slaangor Fiendbloods . . . . . . . . . . 51
PATH TO GLORY........................94
Slaanesh Warband Tables ............96
WARSCROLLS ...........................100
Hedonite Host .............................100
Supreme Sybarites.......................102
Epicurean Revellers ....................102
Seeker Cavalcade.........................102
Depraved Carnival .....................103
Nobles of Excess..........................103
Exalted Speed-Knights...............103
Keeper of Secrets.........................104
Syll’Esske, the Vengeful
Allegiance . . . ..............................106
Shalaxi Helbane ..........................107
The Contorted Epitome .............108
Infernal Enrapturess, Herald
of Slaanesh . . ...............................109
ALLEGIANCE ABILITIES .........79
Slaanesh . . . . .................................79
Invaders . . . . . ................................80
Pretenders . . . ................................82
Godseekers. . .................................84
Spell Lores . . . ................................86
Fane of Slaanesh............................88
Battleplan: Chasing Whispers ....90
Battleplan: Swarm of Sin .............92
DARK SPLENDOUR ...........54
TO GORGE ON EXCESS.............68
PAINTING YOUR HEDONITES
OF SLAANESH ............................70
The Masque . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Viceleader, Herald of Slaanesh . 110
Bladebringer, Herald on
Hellflayer .......................................111
Bladebringer, Herald on
Seeker Chariot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Bladebringer, Herald on
Exalted Chariot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Hellflayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Seeker Chariots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Exalted Chariot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Daemonettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Fiends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Seekers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Hellstriders with Claw-spears . 117
Hellstriders with Hellscourges . 117
Glutos Orscollion, Lord of
Gluttony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Sigvald, Prince of Slaanesh . . . . 120
Lord of Pain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Shardspeaker of Slaanesh . . . . . 121
Blissbarb Seekers. . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Slickblade Seekers. . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Myrmidesh Painbringers . . . . . 122
Symbaresh Twinsouls . . . . . . . . 123
Blissbarb Archers . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Slaangor Fiendbloods. . . . . . . . . 124
The Dread Pageant . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Wheels of Excruciation . . . . . . . 125
Mesmerising Mirror . . . . . . . . . .125
Dreadful Visage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
PITCHED BATTLE
PROFILES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127
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From atop his opulent palanquin and with the blessing of Slaanesh’s daemons, Glutos Orscollion
leads a host of debauched Hedonites in search of the newest and most sublime excesses.
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THEY WHO SEEK EXCESS
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THEY WHO SEEK EXCESS
The followers of Slaanesh take many forms, but every one of them is consumed with the thrill of excess. In times
of war their obsessions reach lethal intensity, all semblance of sanity discarded as they plumb the depths of
indulgent violence. They may appear ecstatic, but the Hedonites of Slaanesh are cursed beyond all measure.
The Hedonites of Slaanesh thrill at
all forms of sensation, and the more
extreme the stimulus the better.
They are united only by a singular,
supernatural focus on their own
desires for excess. Hedonites will
compete among themselves to
perform the most outrageous acts in
service to their deity, hoping that in
the perfection of their unrestrained
behaviour, they will set their absent
god free – and though it may be a
horrifying thought, they are right.
If the worshippers of Slaanesh
bring enough wilful violence and
wickedness to the Mortal Realms,
Slaanesh will once again rise to glory
amongst the Pantheon of Chaos,
and bring decadent ruin to those
who sought to restrain the lord
of depravity.
A savoured luxury or secret treat,
formerly partaken of only as a
reward or during a celebration,
develops into a semi-regular
fixture of a person’s routine. An
artist gradually neglects their
societal responsibilities in order to
labour over their self-proclaimed
magnum opus, egged onwards by
sickly whispers in their mind. As
the mortal’s willpower gradually
erodes, those moments of weakness
become a daily occurrence, and
eventually the sole focus of their
existence. Preoccupation leads to
intemperance, then decadence,
then debauchery. All proper duties
and innocent pursuits are put
aside, material possessions and
even loved ones bartered away so
that the next fix may come a few
moments sooner.
the obsessive feel driven to kill in
order to protect or further their
grotesque vice, they pass the point
of no return. Those who commit
murder or shatter sacred taboos in
the name of their obsession complete
their sinister transformation into a
Sybarite – a mortal warrior of the
Dark Prince. Their destiny from then
on is to cavort alongside fiends and
monsters in the service of a gloating,
uncaring god until they lie torn and
forgotten by the wayside.
Many of these depraved mortals
have grotesque anatomies clad in
sumptuous clothing and bedazzling
jewels. They sport artful warpaint
and cosmetic flourishes, applied to
features so distorted that they strike
a note of horror into the heart. The
mutants amongst their ranks often
have wide, orb-like eyes, their giant
pupils so dilated they appear as wells
of darkest black that drink in every
detail. Others are noseless, their
olfactory organs gaping pits that
channel every scent straight into
the brain, or have long pointed ears
that twitch in time to the heartbeats
of those they seek to slay. Long,
fluid-slicked tongues push out from
elongated maws to taste the air,
delighting in the sensory banquet of
the battlefield.
Opulent champions stride atop
living carpets of devoted sycophants,
utterly lost in the self-destructive
spiral of obsession. Though they
may seem dazzling, urbane, even
charming, these maniacal overlords
are supremely deadly warriors,
and there is no depth of depravity
they will not stoop to in order to
satisfy their perverse whims. Swift
outriders mounted on trilling
daemonic steeds range around the
carnival’s periphery in the search
for sensation. Elegantly armoured
warriors and daemonic symbiotes
turn death into a grisly art form,
their every killing strike delivered
with a disturbing grace. Some, in the
act of making their desires central
WROUGHT IN
MORTAL FLESH
Though mortal Hedonites – known
as Sybarites – may begin their
journey to damnation as simple
thrill-seekers and sensualists,
they soon become enslaved to
their proclivities and addictions.
Everything wholesome and sound is
left behind, morality and even sanity
abandoned as a snake sloughs off its
skin, until only a living incarnation
of desire remains.
Those who regularly indulge their
secret vices unwittingly empower
Slaanesh, and are but a hair’s
breadth from his worship, whether
intentional or not. Even a breathy
word from a daemon of Slaanesh,
crossing the aether much as a kiss
blown from the lips, can push such
an individual over the edge into a
spiral of obsession. A small voice
may cry out within the soul, warning
that all is not well – that way lies
madness. But it is drowned out by
the relentless tide of temptation
that emanates from Slaanesh to lap
against every mortal with a taste
for indulgence.
By this time it is too late, for
Slaanesh’s claim upon that soul is
all but concrete. When all caution
is thrown to the wind, and the
corrupted individual reveals
themselves as a seeker of extreme
experience to the exclusion of all
else, a dark metamorphosis can take
place, both within and without.
Their unspoken pact with Slaanesh is
often sealed with a blade, for should

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