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{{Quote|We are the purest of all. We can do no wrong.|Flawless Host Catechism}}
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{{Infobox Chaos Warband
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| name = The Flawless Host
| image = [[File:Flawlesshosticon.jpg|center|thumb]]
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| image = [[File:Flawless_Host_SP.png|thumb|center|210px]]
 
| Warcry = Unknown
 
| Warcry = Unknown
 
| Founding = Unknown
 
| Founding = Unknown
 
| Number = Unknown
 
| Number = Unknown
| Successors of = [[Emperor's Children]]
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| Successors of = [[Shining Blades]]
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| Successor Warbands = [[Lashdrum Monarchs]] <br/> [[The Luscious Few]] <br/> [[Villsid Skinsmen‎]]
| Successor Chapters = Unknown
 
| Primarch = [[Fulgrim]]
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| Primarch = Unknown
| Chapter Master = Eleaxus the Flawless
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| Chaos Lord = Eleaxus the Flawless
 
| Homeworld = Unknown
 
| Homeworld = Unknown
| Alligiance = [[Chaos]]; [[Slaanesh]]
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| Allegiance = [[Chaos]]; [[Slaanesh]]
 
| Colours = Pink, Purple, Black
 
| Colours = Pink, Purple, Black
 
}}
 
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'''The Flawless Host''' is a [[Chaos Space Marine]] warband in the service of [[Slaanesh]]. The Flawless Host believe they are the embodiment of justice and purity. Their [[gene-seed]] was once free from [[Chaos]] taint, and the rigid mental training of their former incarnation as the Loyalist [[Space Marines]] known as the [[Shining Blades]] gave the [[Chapter]] an unshakeable faith in its own abilities.
[[File:Flawlesshostmarine.jpg|thumb|300px|Warband Colour Scheme of The Flawless Host]]
 
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[[File:Archon's_Fall.jpg|thumb|300px|An intercepted vid-log of The Flawless Host destroying a [[Dark Eldar]] Kabal]]
 
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They were victorious in battle so many times that they convinced themselves they could not fail, leading to the Berillia Massacres of 498.M34. Their overweening pride and wilful delusion caused them to attack, in a frenzy of indignation, any who questioned their magnificence.
'''The Flawless Host''' is a [[Chaos Space Marine]] warband in the service of [[Slaanesh]], and was once the 36th Grand Company of the [[Emperor's Children]] [[Traitor Legion]], which did not retreat into the [[Eye of Terror]] like the rest of their Legion did at the end of the [[Horus Heresy]] but were forced back into [[realspace]] through Warp Storm Bloodfire. Autopsies conducted by the [[Tech-priest]]s of the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] on the corpses of slain Flawless Host warriors have confirmed that the Flawless Host uses an extreme amount of exotic combat stimulants in battle. Lead by the Slaaneshi [[Chaos Champion]] Eleaxus the Flawless, the Host has slowly grown a major force of [[Chaos Space Marines]] dedicated to the Prince of Pleasure, and they firmly believe, in line with the Emperor's Children's original conceptions of perfection, that all other [[Chaos Space Marines]], including their former comrades among the Emperor's Children, are weak and that only the Flawless Host has truly achieved the perfection promised by [[Slaanesh]].
 
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Renaming themselves the Flawless Host, they have scarred the [[Imperium]] ever since as hedonistic servants of Slaanesh, still believing themselves to be pinnacles of biological perfection.
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==Warband History==
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[[File:PersidiusoftheCrookedTongue.jpg|thumb|250px|The Flawless Host Warband Colour Scheme displayed by Persidius of the Coiled Tongue.]]
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Prior to their disastrous failure during the Berillia campaigns and swift descent into madness, the Shining Blades Chapter was one of those Chapters renowned, alongside the [[Red Scorpions]], [[Ultramarines]], [[Umbral Titans]] and a few others, with a [[gene-seed]] record of extreme purity.
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However, the Shining Blades fell victim to their own pride, turning from the [[Emperor]]'s will and beginning a traitorous crusade to cast down any who would claim to be their equals.
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Now calling themselves the Flawless Host, they spent a standard century harrying Loyalist Chapters, burning isolated outposts and decimating smaller detachments of loyal [[Astartes]] warriors until they assaulted a Red Scorpions [[Strike Cruiser]], the ''Crux Puritatis'', as it returned from campaigns in the [[Segmentum Tempestus]], capturing the vessel and taking the Chapter's dead to augment their stocks of uncorrupted gene-seed.
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Then [[Chapter Master]] Thay Kraun of the Red Scorpions recalled all of that Chapter's combat units from their previous engagements and scoured the area from which the Flawless Host was known to operate.
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Once the asteroid fortress used by the Flawless Host and its degenerate allies was discovered, Kraun committed his brethren en masse to its utter destruction.
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In a titanic battle that raged for six solar days the Red Scorpions battered the Flawless Host, blasting apart their defences and storming their fortress chamber-by-chamber. Chapter Master Kraun himself led the re-taking of the ''Crux Puritatis'', using the ''Blade of the Scorpion'' to decapitate the Flawless Host [[Captain (Space Marine)|captain]] who claimed the ship in single combat.
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Withdrawing in the face of the Red Scorpions' overwhelming wrath, the Flawless Host vowed to exact vengeance upon those who would tarnish their glory.
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===Notable Campaigns===
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*'''Berillia Massacres (498-601.M34)''' - Over a dozen campaigns, the [[Shining Blades]] [[Chapter]] of [[Astartes]] wins a string of victories that ultimately become known as the Berillia Massacres. When the Chapter's methods are questioned due to the high number of civilian casualties, they attack their erstwhile allies and the [[Red Scorpions]] [[Chapter]] appear unheralded to bring them to justice. Much blood is shed in the ensuing war and the Shining Blades Chapter's true allegiance is revealed as they transform into the servants of the [[Chaos God]] [[Slaanesh]]. In an act of overweening pride, the Shining Blades declare themselves the "Flawless Host," a sin of hubris for which the Red Scorpions vow to exact punishment.
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*'''Assault on Euthenia (310.M41)''' - A combined Flawless Host and [[Night Lords]] [[Heretic Astartes]] assault force attacked the [[Agri-world]] of [[Euthenia XX]].
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*'''Liberation of Novaris (Unknown Date.M42)''' - The newly chosen [[Chapter Master]] of the [[Silver Templars]] [[Chapter]], [[Akilios Zanaris]], led his Chapter of [[Primaris Space Marines]] to the surface of the world of [[Novaris]], only to find that the populace had been enslaved by [[Heretic Astartes]] of the Flawless Host. The Silver Templars and the [[Heretic]]s engage in a short but fierce war, resulting in the deaths of a quarter of Novaris' population. Eventually, Captain Ducas of the 1st Company defeats the Flawless Host's leader, Lyrius Soulslaver, in a duel that lasts more than a solar day. With Soulslaver's defeat, the battle for Novaris is soon won. The planet was then granted to the Silver Templars to serve as their new [[Space Marine Chapter Homeworld|Chapter homeworld]].
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==Notable Members of The Flawless Host==
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*'''[[Chaos Lord]] Eleaxus the Flawless''' - Eleaxus is a devout [[Chaos Champion]] of the Pleasure God and the leader of The Flawless Host. Eleaxus cares for nothing more than his own glorification and the furtherance of his desire to sit at the right hand of Slaanesh, damning himself further by partaking in blasphemous feasts after his victories. With the promise of all the luxuries of the Imperial world of Makenna VII, Eleaxus' fealty was bought by [[Warmaster]] Davroth of the [[Word Bearers]] [[Traitor Legion]], to help him conquer the doomed world. He led three elite squads of [[Emperor's Children]] [[Chaos Terminators]] known as "the Scream of Hatred," as well as three squads of Emperor's Children Traitor Marines mounted on [[Rhino]] armoured transport carriers, who are called the "Choir of the Damned," to Makenna VII.
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*'''Brother Jhasius (Chaos Dreadnought)''' - Jhasius is a former battle-brother of the Flawless Host who is now interred within the sarcophagus of a [[Chaos Dreadnought]].
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*'''Lyrius Soluslaver (KIA)''' - Lyrius Soulslaver was the Chaos Champion of the Flawless Host who led his warband in conquest of the world of Novaris during the [[Era Indomitus]]. The world was reclaimed for the Imperium by the [[Primaris Marines]] of the [[Silver Templars]], though it cost the lives of a quarter of the world's population. Soulslaver was slain by Captain Ducas of the Silver Templars elite 1st Company, after which the Flawless Host's resistance collapsed.
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==Warband Appearance==
 
==Warband Appearance==
 
===Warband Colours===
 
===Warband Colours===
The Flawless Host's [[Power Armor|Power Armour]] is painted pale pink. The right arm and shoulder plate, lower legs and backpack are painted ina purple flame-like pattern. The trim and warband insignia are painted black.
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The Flawless Host's [[Power Armour]] is painted pale pink. The right arm and shoulder plate, lower legs and backpack are painted in a purple flame-like pattern. The trim and warband insignia are painted black.
 
===Warband Badge===
 
===Warband Badge===
The Flawless Host warband's badge is similar to the sigil of the patron Chaos God [[Slaanesh]], except that the lower part is a crescent instead of an orb, and the other end is a six pointed star.
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The Flawless Host warband's badge is a black-coloured symbol similar to the [[Mark of Slaanesh|sigil]] of the warband's patron [[Chaos God]] [[Slaanesh]], except that the lower part is a crescent instead of an orb, and the other end is the eight-pointed star of [[Chaos]]. This symbol is centred on a field of pink.
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==Sources==
 
==Sources==
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*''Apocalypse'', pg. 171
*''Codex: Space Marines'' (4th Edition), p. 20
 
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*''Codex: Chaos Space Marines'' (6th Edition), pg. 15
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*''Codex Heretic Astartes - Chaos Space Marines'' (8th Edition), pg. 50
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*''Codex Heretic Astartes - Chaos Space Marines'' (8th Edition) (Revised Codex), pg. 50
 
*''Codex: Space Marines'' (4th Edition), pg. 20
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*''Imperial Armour Volume Four - The Anphelion Campaign, Second Edition'', pg. 117
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*''Imperial Armour Volume Thirteen - War Machines of the Lost & The Damned'', pp. 21, 77
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*''Angels of Death: The Judges, In Their Hunger'' (Short Story) by David Annandale
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*''Warhammer 40,000: Silver Templars'' (8th Edition), pg. 19
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*''Imperium Nihilus: Vigilus Ablaze'' (8th Edition), pg. 73
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==Gallery==
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File:Flawlesshosticon.jpg|Flawless Host armourial with warband iconography.
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File:Flawless_Host_Heretic_Astartes.png|The Flawless Host Warband Colour Scheme displayed by Salakis Garakus, Master of All Conflicts and Bringer of Red Truths.
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File:FlawlessHost2.jpg|The Flawless Host Warband Colour Scheme (Original).
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Flawless Host Chaos Fire Raptor.png|A [[Chaos]] [[Fire Raptor]] of the Flawless Host warband. The wreckage of this vehicle was recovered during the combined Flawless Host and [[Night Lords]] attack on the [[Agri-World]] of Euthenia XX, 310.M41.
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Latest revision as of 19:19, 24 August 2021

"We are the purest of all. We can do no wrong."

—Flawless Host Catechism

The Flawless Host is a Chaos Space Marine warband in the service of Slaanesh. The Flawless Host believe they are the embodiment of justice and purity. Their gene-seed was once free from Chaos taint, and the rigid mental training of their former incarnation as the Loyalist Space Marines known as the Shining Blades gave the Chapter an unshakeable faith in its own abilities.

They were victorious in battle so many times that they convinced themselves they could not fail, leading to the Berillia Massacres of 498.M34. Their overweening pride and wilful delusion caused them to attack, in a frenzy of indignation, any who questioned their magnificence.

Renaming themselves the Flawless Host, they have scarred the Imperium ever since as hedonistic servants of Slaanesh, still believing themselves to be pinnacles of biological perfection.

Warband History

PersidiusoftheCrookedTongue

The Flawless Host Warband Colour Scheme displayed by Persidius of the Coiled Tongue.

Prior to their disastrous failure during the Berillia campaigns and swift descent into madness, the Shining Blades Chapter was one of those Chapters renowned, alongside the Red Scorpions, Ultramarines, Umbral Titans and a few others, with a gene-seed record of extreme purity.

However, the Shining Blades fell victim to their own pride, turning from the Emperor's will and beginning a traitorous crusade to cast down any who would claim to be their equals.

Now calling themselves the Flawless Host, they spent a standard century harrying Loyalist Chapters, burning isolated outposts and decimating smaller detachments of loyal Astartes warriors until they assaulted a Red Scorpions Strike Cruiser, the Crux Puritatis, as it returned from campaigns in the Segmentum Tempestus, capturing the vessel and taking the Chapter's dead to augment their stocks of uncorrupted gene-seed.

Then Chapter Master Thay Kraun of the Red Scorpions recalled all of that Chapter's combat units from their previous engagements and scoured the area from which the Flawless Host was known to operate.

Once the asteroid fortress used by the Flawless Host and its degenerate allies was discovered, Kraun committed his brethren en masse to its utter destruction.

In a titanic battle that raged for six solar days the Red Scorpions battered the Flawless Host, blasting apart their defences and storming their fortress chamber-by-chamber. Chapter Master Kraun himself led the re-taking of the Crux Puritatis, using the Blade of the Scorpion to decapitate the Flawless Host captain who claimed the ship in single combat.

Withdrawing in the face of the Red Scorpions' overwhelming wrath, the Flawless Host vowed to exact vengeance upon those who would tarnish their glory.

Notable Campaigns

  • Berillia Massacres (498-601.M34) - Over a dozen campaigns, the Shining Blades Chapter of Astartes wins a string of victories that ultimately become known as the Berillia Massacres. When the Chapter's methods are questioned due to the high number of civilian casualties, they attack their erstwhile allies and the Red Scorpions Chapter appear unheralded to bring them to justice. Much blood is shed in the ensuing war and the Shining Blades Chapter's true allegiance is revealed as they transform into the servants of the Chaos God Slaanesh. In an act of overweening pride, the Shining Blades declare themselves the "Flawless Host," a sin of hubris for which the Red Scorpions vow to exact punishment.
  • Assault on Euthenia (310.M41) - A combined Flawless Host and Night Lords Heretic Astartes assault force attacked the Agri-world of Euthenia XX.
  • Liberation of Novaris (Unknown Date.M42) - The newly chosen Chapter Master of the Silver Templars Chapter, Akilios Zanaris, led his Chapter of Primaris Space Marines to the surface of the world of Novaris, only to find that the populace had been enslaved by Heretic Astartes of the Flawless Host. The Silver Templars and the Heretics engage in a short but fierce war, resulting in the deaths of a quarter of Novaris' population. Eventually, Captain Ducas of the 1st Company defeats the Flawless Host's leader, Lyrius Soulslaver, in a duel that lasts more than a solar day. With Soulslaver's defeat, the battle for Novaris is soon won. The planet was then granted to the Silver Templars to serve as their new Chapter homeworld.

Notable Members of The Flawless Host

  • Chaos Lord Eleaxus the Flawless - Eleaxus is a devout Chaos Champion of the Pleasure God and the leader of The Flawless Host. Eleaxus cares for nothing more than his own glorification and the furtherance of his desire to sit at the right hand of Slaanesh, damning himself further by partaking in blasphemous feasts after his victories. With the promise of all the luxuries of the Imperial world of Makenna VII, Eleaxus' fealty was bought by Warmaster Davroth of the Word Bearers Traitor Legion, to help him conquer the doomed world. He led three elite squads of Emperor's Children Chaos Terminators known as "the Scream of Hatred," as well as three squads of Emperor's Children Traitor Marines mounted on Rhino armoured transport carriers, who are called the "Choir of the Damned," to Makenna VII.
  • Brother Jhasius (Chaos Dreadnought) - Jhasius is a former battle-brother of the Flawless Host who is now interred within the sarcophagus of a Chaos Dreadnought.
  • Lyrius Soluslaver (KIA) - Lyrius Soulslaver was the Chaos Champion of the Flawless Host who led his warband in conquest of the world of Novaris during the Era Indomitus. The world was reclaimed for the Imperium by the Primaris Marines of the Silver Templars, though it cost the lives of a quarter of the world's population. Soulslaver was slain by Captain Ducas of the Silver Templars elite 1st Company, after which the Flawless Host's resistance collapsed.

Warband Appearance

Warband Colours

The Flawless Host's Power Armour is painted pale pink. The right arm and shoulder plate, lower legs and backpack are painted in a purple flame-like pattern. The trim and warband insignia are painted black.

Warband Badge

The Flawless Host warband's badge is a black-coloured symbol similar to the sigil of the warband's patron Chaos God Slaanesh, except that the lower part is a crescent instead of an orb, and the other end is the eight-pointed star of Chaos. This symbol is centred on a field of pink.

Sources

  • Apocalypse, pg. 171
  • Codex: Chaos Space Marines (6th Edition), pg. 15
  • Codex Heretic Astartes - Chaos Space Marines (8th Edition), pg. 50
  • Codex Heretic Astartes - Chaos Space Marines (8th Edition) (Revised Codex), pg. 50
  • Codex: Space Marines (4th Edition), pg. 20
  • Imperial Armour Volume Four - The Anphelion Campaign, Second Edition, pg. 117
  • Imperial Armour Volume Thirteen - War Machines of the Lost & The Damned, pp. 21, 77
  • Angels of Death: The Judges, In Their Hunger (Short Story) by David Annandale
  • Warhammer 40,000: Silver Templars (8th Edition), pg. 19
  • Imperium Nihilus: Vigilus Ablaze (8th Edition), pg. 73

Gallery