A Lord Exultant of the Emperor's Children Legion, armed with a Phoenix Power Spear and Rapture Lash.
A Lord Exultant is an Heretic Astartes Chaos Lord of the Emperor's Children Legion who commands one of their disparate warbands. Lords Exultant often prefer to fight in close combat using melee weapons to maximise the pleasure they get from the sensations of battle and dealing out pain and death.
Role[]
Many Emperor's Children warbands since the end of the Horus Heresy have been commanded by one of the many corrupted Heretic Astartes Chaos Lords pledged to Slaanesh's service. These so-called "Lords Exultant" are sadistic strategists who delight in proving their tactical superiority by weaving complex battle plans across war-torn worlds like artists painting a masterpiece.
Their dark charisma and bottomless imagination for audacious cruelty and new forms of amoral sensation gives them great control over the preening and self-absorbed warriors of the Emperor's Children, coupled with well-honed combat skills using a wide variety of master-crafted wargear.
A Lord Exultant of the Emperor's Children Legion armed with Power Fist and Phoenix Power Spear.
The Lords Exultant often prefer to use melee weapons in combat, such as various Power Weapons, preferring the pleasure brought by the sensations of killing their foes in close combat rather than standing at range.
Known by their allies and enemies alike as sadistic strategists, Lords Exultant view the battlefield as an exhibition arena where only they are worthy to perform. Many Emperor's Children warbands are commanded by these figures, who dominate through their superior acumen, martial prowess, and cruel yet inventive imagination.
Drawn from both the original, pre-Horus Heresy Emperor's Children Legionaries or other Space Marines that have fallen to the corruption of Slaanesh in the ten standard millennia since then, these warlords carve out warbands solely to fulfil their own needs. Easily bored with tasks they deem too simple, in battle they revel in every fresh challenge posed by their enemies.
A Lord Exultant of the Emperor's Children Legion armed with Plasma Pistol and master-crafted Power Sword.
Lords Exultant turned the natural obsession seen in the Emperor's Children into battlefield strategy, manifesting their neuroses as a heightened strategic awareness and overstimulated sensorium that allows them to out-think their rivals. Some Lords Exultant can perceive the minute vibrations of their enemies, smell trace chemical elements on the wind to tell the direction of enemy armour, or compulsively tally the enemy's dwindling ammunition.
The Lords Exultant revel in proving their tactical superiority by weaving complex battle plans and use their charisma and endless imagination for cruelty to rule over other Emperor's Children. The Lords Exultant are also aided in this by wielding a wide variety of master-crafted wargear, combat drugs, and having well-honed combat skills. Their common weaponry includes a Bolt Pistol, Plasma Pistol, or Screamer Pistol, as well as a master-crafted Power Sword, Phoenix Power Spear, Power Fist, or Rapture Lash.
Wargear[]
- Artificer Armour (Any Chaos Power Armour variant)
A Lord Exultant of the Emperor's Children Legion armed with Screamer Pistol and Rapture Lash.
Sources[]
- Warhammer Community - LVO Preview 2025: Establish exactly how much is too much with the Emperor's Children
- Codex: Emperor's Children (10th Edition), pp. 20, 84