Daemonculaba

The Daemonculaba was a project which, using stolen gene-seed, allowed for the creation of new Chaos Space Marines. It was conceptualized by the Iron Warriors Traitor Legion, with the Warsmith Honsou  overseeing it. It took place deep within the dungeons of Khalan-Ghol, the Iron Warriors fortress on the Daemon world of Medrengard. It was marked as being exceptionally evil and sadistic, even by the standards of Chaos.

The Daemonculaba process began by rounding up human females as slaves. Once corralled, they were shackled naked within iron-cages and force fed nutrients causing their bodies to widen and bloat to unfathomably grotesque proportions. Next, beings called Savage Morticans (former members of the Adeptus Mechanicus' biological division corrupted by Chaos) utilized surgical and chemical techniques as well as Chaos magicks to radically alter the slaves' insides and embed them with stolen gene-seed. The 'birthing-womb' thus readied, an adolescent human male was then sealed within – by performing what was essentially a 'reverse c-section.'

Days later, the candidate was then reborn – without any skin. Provided they were not already dead, the candidate was then inspected to see if it was physically worthy to be a Chaos Space Marine. If it was not, it was literally flushed out the sewers to die in the barren wastelands surrounding the fortress labortories. Occasionally though, the rejected creatures survived being cast out and many of these banded together as scavenger-hunters known as the Unfleshed.

If the candidate passed the inspection, flesh would be cross-stitched onto its body and its new life as a Chaos Space Marine would begin. The skin was harvested from the flayed bodies of human slaves; whose flesh had been painfully stretched to vast proportions before being removed while they were still alive.

The system could also use genetic material extracted from Iron Warrior corpses, which would then be implanted within the Daemonculabu.

As for the Daemonculabu themselves, if they happened to survive the birthing process, the cycle would days later begin anew, with them again being used as surrogate birthing-wombs...



Varro Tigurius of the Ultramarines had experienced visions of the Daemonculaba, in the form of nightmares. This prompted Marneus Calgar to order the then recently dishonoured Ultramarines, Uriel Ventris and Pasanius Lysane, to seek out and destroy it. With the help of the Unfleshed, Uriel and Pasanius succeeded. However, Honsou was left filled with such rage, that he swore an obsessive vendetta against Uriel Ventris, and he began gathering an army to wipe out Ultramar.