Sorcerer

A Sorcerer is the most powerful type of psyker found among the Chaos Space Marines and the other Forces of Chaos, serving the same role as Librarians do for Loyalist Space Marine Chapters and Sanctioned Psykers do for the Imperial Guard, though many powerful Sorcerers can also be considered psychically-gifted Champions of Chaos. Instead of the subtle psychic manipulation and divination used by the Farseers of the Eldar or the strength-boosting powers of the Space Marine Librarians, the Sorcerers of Chaos wield death, destruction, and mutation, the mightiest powers of the Warp. Unrestrained by concerns about corruption or morality, a Chaos Sorcerer's powers can be used to destroy through the most flamboyant and pyrotechnic means imaginable. Chaos Sorcerers can hurl bolts of raw Warp energy at the enemy, curse them with Nurgle-spawned plagues and diseases, animate their dead bodies as flesh-eating zombies or physically shape-shift them into a formless blob of flesh. Most Chaos Sorcerers bear the Mark of Tzeentch, who is the Changer of the Ways and Chaos God of Sorcery, but sometimes Sorcerers bearing the Marks of Nurgle the Plague Lord or Slaanesh the Prince of Pleasure also appear. Khorne despises the use of sorcery rather than brute physical power and thus no Sorcerers appear in his service. The Traitor Legion with the most powerful Sorcerers is the Thousand Sons, the Chaos Space Marines who are wholly dedicated to the service of Tzeentch.

The main difference between sorcerers and ordinary psykers is that the former draws much of his power from dark rituals, daemonic pacts and unholy incantations, rather than “merely” channel the warp through his gifted mind. Even a person without any psychic gifts can become a powerful sorcerer through the use of warp lore, but this process is fraught with terrible dangers to both body and soul. An actual psyker can drastically increase his powers by using the dark arts, but at the same time the practitioner becomes more vulnerable to the perils of the warp. Sorcery has been strictly forbidden since before the foundation of the Imperium, but its power still lures thousands of cultists to their damnation. Even among the the Emperor's servants there are some who thinks that the dark powers can be used for good.

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