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[[File:Sekhmet_2.png|thumb|250px|A [[Thousand Sons]] Sekhmet - Scarab Occult Terminator]]
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[[File:Sekhmet_2.png|thumb|250px|A Post-Heresy [[Thousand Sons]] Scarab Occult [[Terminator]] in [[Tartaros Pattern Terminator Armour]].]]
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The '''Sekhmet''', also called the '''Scarab Occult''' or '''Magnus' Veterans''', were the [[Veteran Marine|Veteran]] [[Space Marine]] Battle-Brothers of the [[Thousand Sons]] [[Legion]] who served as the [[Primarch]] [[Magnus the Red]]'s elite [[Honour Guard]]. They were made up of the best and brightest of the Thousand Sons Legion's Astartes and were equipped with resplendent crimson and ivory [[Tactical Dreadnought Armour]], with jade scarabs gleaming on their breastplates and golden crests rearing from their atef helmets.Their visors were marred by a single vertical slash that obscured the right eye lenses of their helmets. This was in honour of their Primarch, nicknamed the Cyclops, due to the loss of his right eye from peering too deeply into the mysterious realms of the [[Immaterium]].
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The '''Scarab Occult Terminators''', originally known as the '''Sekhmet''' and '''Magnus' Veterans''', were the [[Veteran Marine|Veteran]] [[Space Marine]] Battle-Brothers of the [[Thousand Sons]] [[Legion]] who served as the [[Primarch]] [[Magnus the Red]]'s elite [[Honour Guard]].
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They were made up of the best and brightest of the Thousand Sons Legion's [[Astartes]] and were equipped with resplendent crimson and ivory [[Tactical Dreadnought Armour]], with jade scarabs gleaming on their breastplates and golden crests rearing from their Atef helmets.
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Their visors were marred by a single vertical slash that obscured the right eye lenses of their helmets. This was in honour of their Primarch, nicknamed the Cyclops, due to the loss of his right eye from peering too deeply into the mysterious realms of the [[Immaterium]].
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These fell warriors, whose reputation was well-known throughout the [[Great Crusade]] in the late 30th and early 31st Millennia, were the dour Terminator elite of the Thousand Sons Legion, trained all their lives to fight as a single unit and tempered by the long wars of conquest and [[Imperial Compliance]].
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The Scarab Occult did not fight as individuals, but almost as a single body of one mind. They formed a wall of hulking, armoured bodies and flashing long-hafted [[Force Weapon|Force Axes]].
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[[File:ScarabOccultTerminator.png|thumb|250px|A Post-Heresy Thousand Sons Scarab Occult Terminator in [[Tartaros Pattern Terminator Armour]] armed with a [[Hellfyre Missile Rack]] and a [[Combi-bolter]].]]
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In battle, they often changed position to counter their foes, and where one of their enemies moved to strike a blow against one of the Sekhmet, his brothers to either side moved to defend him. The Scarab Occult were trained in more than simple bladework and marksmanship.
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The psychic sorcery that would eventually condemn their Legion was the decisive advantage held by the Thousand Sons elite in battle. They could ignite the very air and turn it against their enemies like a living tide, twisting their minds so that they struck at their own allies or conjured shields and blades of kinetic force.
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The few Sekhmet that remained fled alongside the rest of the surviving Thousand Sons to the [[Planet of the Sorcerers]] at the conclusion of the [[Burning of Prospero]] during the opening years of the [[Horus Heresy]].
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Years later, during their long exile, following the casting of the disastrous sorcerous ritual known as the ''[[Rubric of Ahriman]]'', these fine examples of both warriors and [[psyker]]s also had their physical bodies reduced to dust along with their non-psychic brethren.
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Controlled by their [[Sorcerer]] masters, the undead Scarab Occult Terminators now advance upon their foes implacably and as silent as the grave.
   
The few Sekhmet that remained fled alongside the rest of the surviving Thousand Sons to the [[Planet of the Sorcerers]] at the conclusion of the [[Burning of Prospero]] during the opening years of the [[Horus Heresy]]. Years later, during their long exile, following the casting of the disastrous sorcerous ritual known as the ''[[Rubric of Ahriman]]'', these fine examples of both warriors and [[psyker]]s also had their physical bodies reduced to dust along with their non-psychic brethren. Controlled by their [[Sorcerer|sorcerous]] masters, the undead Scarab Occult Terminators advance upon their foes implacably and as silent as the grave.
 
 
==History==
 
==History==
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[[File:SekhmetTerminatorCabal04.jpg|thumb|250px|A Sekhmet Terminator Cabal in battle during the [[Great Crusade]]]]
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[[File:TS_Sekhmet_Termi.png|thumb|250px|A Sekhmet [[Honour Guard]] [[Terminator]] of the [[Thousand Sons]] [[Legion]]'s 1st Fellowship, arrayed in [[Cataphractii Pattern Terminator Armour]] during the [[Great Crusade]].]]
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The Sekhmet were active throughout the era of the [[Great Crusade]] and the [[Horus Heresy]]. The Sekhmet were all Veteran members of the Scarab Occult of the [[XV Legion]]'s elite 1<sup>st</sup> Fellowship, under the command of [[Captain]] [[Ahriman|Ahzek Ahriman]], who was also the Magister Templi of the Legion's [[Corvidae Cult]]. These proud and extremely devoted warriors were both combat Veterans and highly-ranked members of the psychic [[Cults of the Thousand Sons|Cult]] system of the Thousand Sons. The Sekhmet were powerful [[psyker|warrior-mages]], and could call forth powers mortal men could never dream of wielding. On his own, each warrior of the Sekhmet was capable of subduing worlds. In battle, the Scarab Occult could simply will their Tutelaries into their enemies' hiding places, and burn them out with invisible fires or crush them with psychic hammer blows. Methodical and swift, Ahriman's 1st Fellowship would then push onwards like autonomous engines of destruction.
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The Sekhmet were active throughout the era of the [[Great Crusade]] and the [[Horus Heresy]]. The Sekhmet were all Veteran members of the Scarab Occult of the [[XV Legion]]'s elite 1st Fellowship, under the command of [[Captain]] [[Ahzek Ahriman]], who was also the Magister Templi of the Legion's [[Corvidae Cult]].
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These proud and extremely devoted warriors were both combat Veterans and highly-ranked members of the psychic [[Cults of the Thousand Sons|Cult]] system of the Thousand Sons. The Sekhmet were powerful [[psyker|warrior-mages]], and could call forth powers mortal men could never dream of wielding. On his own, each warrior of the Sekhmet was capable of subduing worlds. In battle, the Scarab Occult could simply will their Tutelaries into their enemies' hiding places, and burn them out with invisible fires or crush them with psychic hammer blows. Methodical and swift, Ahriman's 1<sup>st</sup> Fellowship would then push onwards like autonomous engines of destruction.
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[[File:SekhmetTerminatorCabal04.jpg|thumb|250px|A Sekhmet Terminator Cabal in battle during the [[Great Crusade]].]]
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In the days before [[Council of Nikaea]], when the Thousand Sons took to the field and encountered a foe so mighty that their own master, the terrifyingly powerful Magnus the Red, deemed it necessary that he take to the battlefield to best it, he often did so at the head of a configuration of his Sekhmet, supported by the most deadly elements of his arcane Legion and an unimaginable concentration of psychic force.
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Before the Guard of the Crimson King, foul [[xenos]] warlords who had slain whole worlds and mysterious entities hellish beyond description fell broken and shattered, and even the might of ancient terrors such as the [[Eldar]] and the [[M'Varta]] could not stand.
   
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None of the Sekhmet were ranked below the Thousand Sons Cult grade of Philosophus, the final Cult rank a warrior could hold before facing the ''Dominus Liminus''. Each Astartes was able to mentally transcend his physical and emotional weaknesses; achieving a form of emotional purity that resulted in warriors who were both fearless and willing to follow orders immediately and unquestioningly.
In the days before [[Council of Nikaea|Nikaea]], when the Thousand Sons took to the field and encountered a foe so mighty that their own master, the terrifyingly powerful Magnus the Red, deemed it required that he take to the battlefield to best it, he often did so at the head of a configuration of his Sekhmet, supported by the most deadly elements of his arcane Legion and an unimaginable concentration of psychic force. Before the Guard of the Crimson King, foul xenos warlords that had slain whole worlds and mysterious entities hellish beyond description fell broken and shattered, and even the might of ancient terrors such as the [[Eldar]] and the M'Varta could not stand.
 
   
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None of the Sekhmet were ranked below the Thousand Sons Cult grade of Philosophus, the final Cult rank a warrior could hold before facing the Dominus Liminus. Each Astartes was able to mentally transcend their physical and emotional weaknesses; achieving a form of emotional purity that resulted in warriors who were both fearless and willing to follow orders immediately and unquestioningly. This extraordinary level of discipline was commented on by some of the other Primarchs who witnessed the Sekhmet in action during the Great Crusade. [[Jaghatai Khan]] of the [[White Scars]] [[Legion]] commented that the Sekhmet were no better than automata, whilst, in a similar vein, [[Ferrus Manus]] of the [[Iron Hands]] [[Legion]] likened them to [[robot]]s, though some within the Thousand Sons suspected that knowing the Iron Hands' affinity for technology and cybernetic augmentation, this comment may have been meant as a compliment. [[Leman Russ]], the [[Great Wolf]] of the [[Space Wolves]] [[Legion]], showed disdain for what he perceived as the Sekhmet's perceived "lack" of fighting spirit and ''esprit de corps'' due to their taciturn natures.
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This extraordinary level of discipline was commented on by some of the other Primarchs who witnessed the Sekhmet in action during the Great Crusade. [[Jaghatai Khan]] of the [[White Scars]] [[Legion]] commented that the Sekhmet were no better than automata, whilst, in a similar vein, [[Ferrus Manus]] of the [[Iron Hands]] [[Legion]] likened them to [[robot]]s, though some within the Thousand Sons suspected that knowing the Iron Hands' affinity for technology and cybernetic augmentation, this comment may have been meant as a compliment. [[Leman Russ]], the [[Great Wolf]] of the [[Space Wolves]] [[Legion]], showed disdain for what he perceived as the Sekhmet's perceived "lack" of fighting spirit and ''esprit de corps'' due to their taciturn natures.
   
 
===Post-Heresy===
 
===Post-Heresy===
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[[File:Sekhmet_1.png|thumb|250px|A Sekhmet Scarab Occult Terminator stands vigilant, ready to do his sorcerous masters' bidding]]
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[[File:Sekhmet_1.png|thumb|250px|A Scarab Occult Terminator stands vigilant, ready to do his sorcerous masters' bidding.]]
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Following the Thousand Sons Legion's transformation into a Chaotic [[Traitor Legion]] devoted to [[Tzeentch]] and the enactment of the ''Rubric of Ahriman'', the physical bodies of the Sekhmet, like many of their non-psychic Battle-Brothers, were reduced to mere dust -- the animating spirit that remained possessing only an echo of their once-vaunted intellect. They go into battle at the behest of their Sorcerer Lords, advancing with eerie and unhurried calm. Their ornate armour -- derived from ancient [[Tartaros Pattern Terminator Armour|Terminator war-plate]] - ripples with arcane force, sending solid shot ricocheting away and even turning aside the beams of high-technology weaponry. At close quarters, the Scarab Occult Terminators bat away their assailants' blows with contemptuous sweeps of [[Power Sword|Power Khopesh]] blades, before delivering devastating ripostes against those who insult the warriors of [[Prospero]] with their resistance.
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Following the Thousand Sons Legion's transformation into a [[Chaos]] [[Traitor Legion]] devoted to [[Tzeentch]] and the enactment of the ''Rubric of Ahriman'', the physical bodies of the Sekhmet, like many of their non-psychic Battle-Brothers, were reduced to mere dust -- the animating spirit that remained possessing only an echo of their once-vaunted intellect. They go into battle at the behest of their Sorcerer Lords, advancing with eerie and unhurried calm.
   
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Some of these masters were part of the Scarab Occult at the time of Ahriman's mighty spell, and were robust enough of spirit and mind to resist its obliterative effects. Others are powerful mystics who have ascended the ranks of the Thousand Sons over many centuries and through twisted ingenuity earned a place amongst the vaunted Sekhmet. In either case, a Scarab Occult Sorcerer controls a nigh-unstoppable force of warrior-automata, capable of wading unharmed through masses of lesser enemy infantry.
In battle, these elite warriors are often gathered into a battle formation known as a Sekhmet Conclave, a concentration of magical force like no other. The air around these timeless warriors shimmers with energy as the sigil-wards of the Scarab Occult magnify their protective powers to new heights. Gathered around their psyker masters, these massively armoured warriors walk in thudding lockstep, the beat of their heavy tread a deathly drum that speaks of impending doom. Inferno [[Combi-Weapons|Combi-bolter]]s are raised at a silent command, a blistering salvo of bolts hammering out to send transmorphic flame billowing in all directions. The arcane syllables uttered by their lords echo across the battlefield -- though the Scarab Occult were once counted amongst the most powerful mortals in existence, their independence is long gone, and now they serve only the sorcerous fiends in their midst.
 
   
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The Scarab Occult's ornate armour -- derived from a variant of ancient [[Tartaros Pattern Terminator Armour|Tartaros Pattern war-plate]] -- ripples with arcane force, sending solid shot ricocheting away and even turning aside the beams of high-technology weaponry. Each suit was a relic of the Legion, but even before their fall to Tzeentch was complete the Thousand Sons had begun engraving their Terminator Armour with profane inscriptions.
==Pre-Heresy Composition==
 
*'''4-9 Sekhemet Terminators (Per Squad)'''
 
*'''1 Sekhmet Inceptor (Sergeant)'''
 
   
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This desecration continued after the proscriptions against sorcery laid down by the [[Council of Nikaea]], for the Scarab Occult saw it as their duty to guard the forbidden knowledge their Primarch had collected. The ''Rubric of Ahriman'' sealed each warrior inside his defiled armour permanently, locking the remnants of their souls for eternity with the idolatrous spell-words they had etched. Over millennia of exposure to the Warp, the true power of these etchings has blended with the essence of each warrior, creating in the Scarab Occult a hellishly twisted warrior cabal.
==Post-Heresy Composition==
 
*'''4-9 Scarab Occult Terminators (Per Squad)'''
 
*'''1 Scarab Occult Sorcerer'''
 
*'''1 [[Chaos]] [[Land Raider]] (as a dedicated transport)'''
 
   
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The Scarab Occult's armour has retained much of its potency over the long centuries since their creation. [[Refractor Field]] generators have become saturated with empyric energy, causing the air around them to writhe as incoming fire is deflected harmlessly. Each suit is also capable of withstanding the pressures of teleportation, allowing the warriors of the Scarab Occult to emerge suddenly onto the battlefield through holes torn in reality.
==Pre-Heresy Wargear==
 
[[File:Sekhmet_Termi_Closeup.jpg|thumb|250px|A Sekhmet Terminator during the time of the [[Great Crusade]] arrayed in his deadly panoply of war.]]
 
*'''[[Cataphractii Pattern Terminator Armour]]'''
 
*'''[[Force Weapon]] (Axe, Maul or Sword)'''
 
*'''[[Combi-weapons|Combi-Bolter]]'''
 
*'''[[Asphyx Shells]]''' - Tainted with a psycho-reactive toxin of unknown origins, the Thousand Sons were able to arm their elites with these unusual and highly lethal munitions. Asphyx Shells were first believed to have been developed on Prospero for use with relatively primitive projectile weapons made to defend against the deadly [[Psychneuein]], but the difficulties of mass production and scaling of their effect limited their deployment.
 
   
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[[File:ThousandSonsTerminators01.jpg|thumb|250px|Scarab Occult Terminators, led by an [[Exalted Sorcerer]], march to war.]]
==Post-Heresy Wargear==
 
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[[File:TS_Sekhmet_2.png|thumb|250px|A Sekhmet Scarab Occult Terminator arrayed in his deadly panoply of war]]
 
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The ubiquitous weapon of the Scarab Occult Terminators is a cruelly curved blade based on the khopesh of ancient [[Prospero]]. The earliest khopeshes were forged from what scant pieces of precious metals could be found on the barren world, and were symbols of authority used to mete out punishment to those who disobeyed Prosperine laws.
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When the Thousand Sons Legion came to Prospero, the khopesh was adopted by the Scarab Occult as the mark of their rank, and they were fitted with power-field generators to allow them to cleave matter at a molecular level. Though the warriors of the Scarab Occult are but ghosts of their former glory, the deadly speed and skill with which they wield their blades in close quarters has remained ever potent.
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The Scarab Occult Terminators bat away their assailants' blows with contemptuous sweeps of their [[Power Sword|Power Khopesh]] blades, before delivering devastating ripostes against those who insult the warriors of Prospero with their resistance.
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In battle, these elite warriors are often gathered into a battle formation known as a Sekhmet Conclave, a concentration of magical force like no other. The air around these timeless warriors shimmers with energy as the sigil-wards of the Scarab Occult magnify their protective powers to new heights. Gathered around their psyker masters, these massively armoured warriors walk in thudding lockstep, the beat of their heavy tread a deathly drum that speaks of impending doom.
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Inferno [[Combi-bolters]] are raised at a silent command, a blistering salvo of bolts hammering out to send transmorphic flame billowing in all directions.
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The arcane syllables uttered by their lords echo across the battlefield -- though the Scarab Occult were once counted amongst the most powerful mortals in existence, their independence is long gone, and now they serve only the sorcerous fiends in their midst.
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==Scarab Occult Sorcerer==
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Scarab Occult Sorcerers are [[Chaos Sorcerers]] of the Thousand Sons Legion. They serve as part of the Scarab Occult.
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Like almost all Sorcerers of the Thousand Sons, Scarab Occult Sorcerers kept their independent existence and intact personalities after the disastrous ''Rubric of Ahriman''.
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Since that time the Scarab Occult Sorcerers have commanded the units of the Scarab Occult Terminators in battle.
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==Unit Composition==
 
===Pre-Heresy===
 
*'''4-9 Sekhemet Terminators (per squad)'''
 
*'''1 Sekhmet Inceptor ([[Sergeant]])'''
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===Post-Heresy===
 
*'''4-9 Scarab Occult Terminators (per squad)'''
 
*'''1 Scarab Occult [[Sorcerer]]'''
 
*'''1 [[Chaos Land Raider]] (as a dedicated transport)'''
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[[File:Sekhmet_Termi_Closeup.jpg|thumb|250px|A Sekhmet Terminator in his full panopoly at the time of the [[Great Crusade]].]]
 
*'''[[Cataphractii Pattern Terminator Armour]]'''
 
*'''[[Force Weapon]] (Force Axe, Maul or Sword)'''
 
*'''[[Combi-Bolter]]'''
 
*'''[[Asphyx Shells]]''' - Tainted with a psycho-reactive toxin of unknown origins, the Thousand Sons were able to arm their elites with these unusual and highly lethal Bolter munitions. Asphyx Shells were first believed to have been developed on Prospero for use with relatively primitive projectile weapons made to defend against the deadly [[Psychneuein]], but the difficulties of mass production and scaling of their effect limited their deployment.
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[[File:TS_Sekhmet_2.png|thumb|250px|A Post-Heresy Scarab Occult Terminator arrayed in his deadly panoply of war]]
 
*'''[[Tartaros Pattern Terminator Armour|Archaic Terminator Armour]]'''
 
*'''[[Tartaros Pattern Terminator Armour|Archaic Terminator Armour]]'''
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*'''Inferno [[Combi-weapons|Combi-Bolter]]''' - The weapons of the Thousand Sons are shaped by the craft of artificers and sorcerers alike. When their guns roar, they fire not only explosive bolts that tear flesh, but uncanny arcane energies that can melt even [[ceramite]]. In such a fashion is the [[Long War]] waged anew.
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*'''Inferno [[Combi-Bolter]]''' - The weapons of the Thousand Sons are shaped by the craft of artificers and Sorcerers alike. When their guns roar, they fire not only explosive bolts that tear flesh, but uncanny arcane energies that can melt even [[ceramite]]. In such a fashion is the [[Long War]] waged anew.
 
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*'''[[Power Sword]] '''
   
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Any member of the squad could exchange their force weapon for a [[Power Fist]] with one of the following:
 
Any member of the squad could exchange their force weapon for a [[Power Fist]] with one of the following:
 
*'''[[Lightning Claw]]'''
 
*'''[[Lightning Claw]]'''
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*'''[[Chainfist]]'''
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*'''[[Combi-weapons|Combi-Weapon]] (Asphyx Shells are retained)'''
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===Post-Heresy Optional Wargear===
 
===Post-Heresy Optional Wargear===
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*'''Heavy Warpflamer''' - In the hands of the Thousand Sons, flame weapons hurl gouts of transmorphic fire that mutate those touched by them.
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*'''Heavy Warpflamer''' - In the hands of the Thousand Sons, their [[Flamer]]s hurl gouts of transmorphic fire that mutate those touched by them.
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*'''Soulreaper Cannon''' - A heavy variant of the Inferno Weapons utilised exclusively by the Thousand Sons Traitor Legion.
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*'''[[Soulreaper Cannon]]''' - A heavy variant of the Inferno Weapons utilised exclusively by the Thousand Sons Traitor Legion.
 
For every 5 Scarab Occult Terminators, one may also take the following:
 
For every 5 Scarab Occult Terminators, one may also take the following:
 
*'''[[Hellfyre Missile Rack]]''' - Mounted atop the shoulders of Scarab Occult Terminators, the Hellfyre Missile Rack fires compact but deadly warheads that detonate in explosions of aetheric light.
 
*'''[[Hellfyre Missile Rack]]''' - Mounted atop the shoulders of Scarab Occult Terminators, the Hellfyre Missile Rack fires compact but deadly warheads that detonate in explosions of aetheric light.
   
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===Scarab Occult Sorcerer===
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*'''Artificer Terminator Armour'''
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*'''Artificer Chaos Terminator Armour'''
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*'''Inferno [[Combi-bolter]]'''
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*'''[[Force Weapon|Force Stave]]'''
 
*'''[[Power Sword]] (Replacement for the Inferno Combi-bolter)'''
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*'''1 [[Power Sword]] in lieu of the Inferno Combi-Bolter'''
 
 
*'''[[Chaos]] mutation'''
 
*'''[[Chaos]] mutation'''
   
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==Sources==
 
==Sources==
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*''Codex Heretic Astartes - Thousand Sons'' (8th Edition), pp. 19, 41, 62, 76
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*''Horus Heresy: Collected Visions''
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*''Horus Heresy: Collected Visions'', pp. 52, 240, 303
 
*''The Horus Heresy - Book Seven: Inferno'' (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, pp. 47, 151, 210, 212, 214
 
*''The Horus Heresy - Book Seven: Inferno'' (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, pp. 47, 151, 210, 212, 214
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*''War Zone: Fenris - Wrath of Magnus'' (Campaign Supplement), pp. 99, 101-102, 108, 123, 125-126, 128, 131, 133-135, 138-139, 140-141, 146, 151, 164, 167, 169-170, 173, 198
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*''War Zone: Fenris - Wrath of Magnus'' (7th Edition), pp. 99, 101-102, 108, 123, 125-126, 128, 131, 133-135, 138-139, 140-141, 146, 151, 164, 167, 169-170, 173, 198
 
*''A Thousand Sons'' (Novel) by [[Graham McNeill]], pp. 11, 14, 26, 48, 57, 98, 101-105, 108, 215, 219, 230-231, 248, 251, 254
 
*''A Thousand Sons'' (Novel) by [[Graham McNeill]], pp. 11, 14, 26, 48, 57, 98, 101-105, 108, 215, 219, 230-231, 248, 251, 254
 
*[https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-NZ/Thousand-Sons-Legion-Sekhmet-Terminator-Cabal-2017 ''Forge World Webstore - Thousand Sons Legion Sekhmet Terminator Cabal'']
 
*[https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-NZ/Thousand-Sons-Legion-Sekhmet-Terminator-Cabal-2017 ''Forge World Webstore - Thousand Sons Legion Sekhmet Terminator Cabal'']
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*[https://www.games-workshop.com/en-NZ/scarab-occult-terminators ''Games Workshop Webstore - Scarab Occult Terminators'']
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{{Chaos Space Marine Forces}}
   
 
==Gallery==
 
==Gallery==
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File:Sekhmet_Terminator_Squad.jpg|A Sekhmet [[Terminator]], bodyguard to [[Primarch]] [[Magnus the Red]]
 
File:Sekhmet_Terminator_Squad.jpg|A Sekhmet [[Terminator]], bodyguard to [[Primarch]] [[Magnus the Red]]
 
File:Sekhmet_-_Magnus'_Bodyguard.jpg|[[Magnus the Red]] with his elite [[Honour Guard]], the Sekhmet, during the [[Great Crusade]]
 
File:Sekhmet_-_Magnus'_Bodyguard.jpg|[[Magnus the Red]] with his elite [[Honour Guard]], the Sekhmet, during the [[Great Crusade]]
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TS Honour Guard_Termi.jpg|A Pre-Heresy [[Thousand Sons]] Sekhmet Honour Guard in [[Tartaros Pattern Terminator Armour]]
TS Sekhmet 1.png|A typical example of a Scarab Occult Terminator of the [[Thousand Sons]] [[Traitor Legion]]; note the tabard carries the same runes as those borne by the [[Rubricae]] squads of their thrallbands
 
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ScarabOccultTerminatorSquadMinis.PNG|The disincorporated warriors of the Scarab Occult march unharmed through salvo after salvo of [[Astra Militarum]] [[Lasgun]] fire.
 
TS Sekhmet 1.png|A typical example of a Scarab Occult [[Terminator]] of the [[Thousand Sons]] [[Traitor Legion]]; note the tabard carries the same runes as those borne by the [[Rubricae]] squads of the Thousand Sons' thrallbands
 
Blades of Magnus_Sekhmet 1.png|A Sekhemet Scarab Occult Terminator of the [[Blades of Magnus, The|Blades of Magnus]] thrallband
 
Blades of Magnus_Sekhmet 1.png|A Sekhemet Scarab Occult Terminator of the [[Blades of Magnus, The|Blades of Magnus]] thrallband
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Grand Order_Herm Blades Sekhmet.png|A Sekhemet Scarab Occult [[Terminator]] of the [[Grand Order of Hermetic Blades]] thrallband
 
Red Echo_Sekhmet.png|A Sekhemet Scarab Occult Terminator of the thrallband of Daedophet the [[Red Echo]]
 
Red Echo_Sekhmet.png|A Sekhemet Scarab Occult Terminator of the thrallband of Daedophet the [[Red Echo]]
 
Prism of Fate_Sekhmet 1.png|A Sekhemet of the [[Prism of Fate]] thrallband
 
Prism of Fate_Sekhmet 1.png|A Sekhemet of the [[Prism of Fate]] thrallband
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Warp Gheists_Sekhemet.png|A Sekhmet of the [[Warp Gheists]] thrallband
 
Warp Gheists_Sekhemet.png|A Sekhmet of the [[Warp Gheists]] thrallband
 
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A Post-Heresy Thousand Sons Scarab Occult Terminator in Tartaros Pattern Terminator Armour.

The Scarab Occult Terminators, originally known as the Sekhmet and Magnus' Veterans, were the Veteran Space Marine Battle-Brothers of the Thousand Sons Legion who served as the Primarch Magnus the Red's elite Honour Guard.

They were made up of the best and brightest of the Thousand Sons Legion's Astartes and were equipped with resplendent crimson and ivory Tactical Dreadnought Armour, with jade scarabs gleaming on their breastplates and golden crests rearing from their Atef helmets.

Their visors were marred by a single vertical slash that obscured the right eye lenses of their helmets. This was in honour of their Primarch, nicknamed the Cyclops, due to the loss of his right eye from peering too deeply into the mysterious realms of the Immaterium.

These fell warriors, whose reputation was well-known throughout the Great Crusade in the late 30th and early 31st Millennia, were the dour Terminator elite of the Thousand Sons Legion, trained all their lives to fight as a single unit and tempered by the long wars of conquest and Imperial Compliance.

The Scarab Occult did not fight as individuals, but almost as a single body of one mind. They formed a wall of hulking, armoured bodies and flashing long-hafted Force Axes.

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A Post-Heresy Thousand Sons Scarab Occult Terminator in Tartaros Pattern Terminator Armour armed with a Hellfyre Missile Rack and a Combi-bolter.

In battle, they often changed position to counter their foes, and where one of their enemies moved to strike a blow against one of the Sekhmet, his brothers to either side moved to defend him. The Scarab Occult were trained in more than simple bladework and marksmanship.

The psychic sorcery that would eventually condemn their Legion was the decisive advantage held by the Thousand Sons elite in battle. They could ignite the very air and turn it against their enemies like a living tide, twisting their minds so that they struck at their own allies or conjured shields and blades of kinetic force.

The few Sekhmet that remained fled alongside the rest of the surviving Thousand Sons to the Planet of the Sorcerers at the conclusion of the Burning of Prospero during the opening years of the Horus Heresy.

Years later, during their long exile, following the casting of the disastrous sorcerous ritual known as the Rubric of Ahriman, these fine examples of both warriors and psykers also had their physical bodies reduced to dust along with their non-psychic brethren.

Controlled by their Sorcerer masters, the undead Scarab Occult Terminators now advance upon their foes implacably and as silent as the grave.

History

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A Sekhmet Honour Guard Terminator of the Thousand Sons Legion's 1st Fellowship, arrayed in Cataphractii Pattern Terminator Armour during the Great Crusade.

The Sekhmet were active throughout the era of the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy. The Sekhmet were all Veteran members of the Scarab Occult of the XV Legion's elite 1st Fellowship, under the command of Captain Ahzek Ahriman, who was also the Magister Templi of the Legion's Corvidae Cult.

These proud and extremely devoted warriors were both combat Veterans and highly-ranked members of the psychic Cult system of the Thousand Sons. The Sekhmet were powerful warrior-mages, and could call forth powers mortal men could never dream of wielding. On his own, each warrior of the Sekhmet was capable of subduing worlds. In battle, the Scarab Occult could simply will their Tutelaries into their enemies' hiding places, and burn them out with invisible fires or crush them with psychic hammer blows. Methodical and swift, Ahriman's 1st Fellowship would then push onwards like autonomous engines of destruction.

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A Sekhmet Terminator Cabal in battle during the Great Crusade.

In the days before Council of Nikaea, when the Thousand Sons took to the field and encountered a foe so mighty that their own master, the terrifyingly powerful Magnus the Red, deemed it necessary that he take to the battlefield to best it, he often did so at the head of a configuration of his Sekhmet, supported by the most deadly elements of his arcane Legion and an unimaginable concentration of psychic force.

Before the Guard of the Crimson King, foul xenos warlords who had slain whole worlds and mysterious entities hellish beyond description fell broken and shattered, and even the might of ancient terrors such as the Eldar and the M'Varta could not stand.

None of the Sekhmet were ranked below the Thousand Sons Cult grade of Philosophus, the final Cult rank a warrior could hold before facing the Dominus Liminus. Each Astartes was able to mentally transcend his physical and emotional weaknesses; achieving a form of emotional purity that resulted in warriors who were both fearless and willing to follow orders immediately and unquestioningly.

This extraordinary level of discipline was commented on by some of the other Primarchs who witnessed the Sekhmet in action during the Great Crusade. Jaghatai Khan of the White Scars Legion commented that the Sekhmet were no better than automata, whilst, in a similar vein, Ferrus Manus of the Iron Hands Legion likened them to robots, though some within the Thousand Sons suspected that knowing the Iron Hands' affinity for technology and cybernetic augmentation, this comment may have been meant as a compliment. Leman Russ, the Great Wolf of the Space Wolves Legion, showed disdain for what he perceived as the Sekhmet's perceived "lack" of fighting spirit and esprit de corps due to their taciturn natures.

Post-Heresy

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A Scarab Occult Terminator stands vigilant, ready to do his sorcerous masters' bidding.

Following the Thousand Sons Legion's transformation into a Chaos Traitor Legion devoted to Tzeentch and the enactment of the Rubric of Ahriman, the physical bodies of the Sekhmet, like many of their non-psychic Battle-Brothers, were reduced to mere dust -- the animating spirit that remained possessing only an echo of their once-vaunted intellect. They go into battle at the behest of their Sorcerer Lords, advancing with eerie and unhurried calm.

Some of these masters were part of the Scarab Occult at the time of Ahriman's mighty spell, and were robust enough of spirit and mind to resist its obliterative effects. Others are powerful mystics who have ascended the ranks of the Thousand Sons over many centuries and through twisted ingenuity earned a place amongst the vaunted Sekhmet. In either case, a Scarab Occult Sorcerer controls a nigh-unstoppable force of warrior-automata, capable of wading unharmed through masses of lesser enemy infantry.

The Scarab Occult's ornate armour -- derived from a variant of ancient Tartaros Pattern war-plate -- ripples with arcane force, sending solid shot ricocheting away and even turning aside the beams of high-technology weaponry. Each suit was a relic of the Legion, but even before their fall to Tzeentch was complete the Thousand Sons had begun engraving their Terminator Armour with profane inscriptions.

This desecration continued after the proscriptions against sorcery laid down by the Council of Nikaea, for the Scarab Occult saw it as their duty to guard the forbidden knowledge their Primarch had collected. The Rubric of Ahriman sealed each warrior inside his defiled armour permanently, locking the remnants of their souls for eternity with the idolatrous spell-words they had etched. Over millennia of exposure to the Warp, the true power of these etchings has blended with the essence of each warrior, creating in the Scarab Occult a hellishly twisted warrior cabal.

The Scarab Occult's armour has retained much of its potency over the long centuries since their creation. Refractor Field generators have become saturated with empyric energy, causing the air around them to writhe as incoming fire is deflected harmlessly. Each suit is also capable of withstanding the pressures of teleportation, allowing the warriors of the Scarab Occult to emerge suddenly onto the battlefield through holes torn in reality.

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Scarab Occult Terminators, led by an Exalted Sorcerer, march to war.

The ubiquitous weapon of the Scarab Occult Terminators is a cruelly curved blade based on the khopesh of ancient Prospero. The earliest khopeshes were forged from what scant pieces of precious metals could be found on the barren world, and were symbols of authority used to mete out punishment to those who disobeyed Prosperine laws.

When the Thousand Sons Legion came to Prospero, the khopesh was adopted by the Scarab Occult as the mark of their rank, and they were fitted with power-field generators to allow them to cleave matter at a molecular level. Though the warriors of the Scarab Occult are but ghosts of their former glory, the deadly speed and skill with which they wield their blades in close quarters has remained ever potent.

The Scarab Occult Terminators bat away their assailants' blows with contemptuous sweeps of their Power Khopesh blades, before delivering devastating ripostes against those who insult the warriors of Prospero with their resistance.

In battle, these elite warriors are often gathered into a battle formation known as a Sekhmet Conclave, a concentration of magical force like no other. The air around these timeless warriors shimmers with energy as the sigil-wards of the Scarab Occult magnify their protective powers to new heights. Gathered around their psyker masters, these massively armoured warriors walk in thudding lockstep, the beat of their heavy tread a deathly drum that speaks of impending doom.

Inferno Combi-bolters are raised at a silent command, a blistering salvo of bolts hammering out to send transmorphic flame billowing in all directions.

The arcane syllables uttered by their lords echo across the battlefield -- though the Scarab Occult were once counted amongst the most powerful mortals in existence, their independence is long gone, and now they serve only the sorcerous fiends in their midst.

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Scarab Occult Sorcerers are Chaos Sorcerers of the Thousand Sons Legion. They serve as part of the Scarab Occult.

Like almost all Sorcerers of the Thousand Sons, Scarab Occult Sorcerers kept their independent existence and intact personalities after the disastrous Rubric of Ahriman.

Since that time the Scarab Occult Sorcerers have commanded the units of the Scarab Occult Terminators in battle.

Unit Composition

Pre-Heresy

  • 4-9 Sekhemet Terminators (per squad)
  • 1 Sekhmet Inceptor (Sergeant)

Post-Heresy

Wargear

Pre-Heresy

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A Sekhmet Terminator in his full panopoly at the time of the Great Crusade.

  • Cataphractii Pattern Terminator Armour
  • Force Weapon (Force Axe, Maul or Sword)
  • Combi-Bolter
  • Asphyx Shells - Tainted with a psycho-reactive toxin of unknown origins, the Thousand Sons were able to arm their elites with these unusual and highly lethal Bolter munitions. Asphyx Shells were first believed to have been developed on Prospero for use with relatively primitive projectile weapons made to defend against the deadly Psychneuein, but the difficulties of mass production and scaling of their effect limited their deployment.

Post-Heresy

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A Post-Heresy Scarab Occult Terminator arrayed in his deadly panoply of war

  • Archaic Terminator Armour
  • Inferno Combi-Bolter - The weapons of the Thousand Sons are shaped by the craft of artificers and Sorcerers alike. When their guns roar, they fire not only explosive bolts that tear flesh, but uncanny arcane energies that can melt even ceramite. In such a fashion is the Long War waged anew.
  • Power Sword

Pre-Heresy Optional Wargear

Any member of the squad could exchange their force weapon for a Power Fist with one of the following:

Any member in the squad might exchange their Combi-bolter for a:

Post-Heresy Optional Wargear

1 out of every 5 Scarab Occult Terminators may replace his Inferno Combi-bolter with the following:

  • Heavy Warpflamer - In the hands of the Thousand Sons, their Flamers hurl gouts of transmorphic fire that mutate those touched by them.
  • Soulreaper Cannon - A heavy variant of the Inferno Weapons utilised exclusively by the Thousand Sons Traitor Legion.

For every 5 Scarab Occult Terminators, one may also take the following:

  • Hellfyre Missile Rack - Mounted atop the shoulders of Scarab Occult Terminators, the Hellfyre Missile Rack fires compact but deadly warheads that detonate in explosions of aetheric light.

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See Also

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Chaos Space Marine Forces
Command Chaos Lord ā€¢ Exalted Champion ā€¢ Chaos Champion ā€¢ Aspiring Champion ā€¢ Sorcerer Lord ā€¢ Daemon Prince ā€¢ Daemon Prince of Nurgle ā€¢ Daemon Prince of Tzeentch ā€¢ Death Guard Lord
Specialists Exalted Sorcerer ā€¢ Sorcerer ā€¢ Warpsmith ā€¢ Dark Apostle ā€¢ Master of Possession ā€¢ Master of Executions ā€¢ Lord Discordant ā€¢ Warsmith ā€¢ Death Guard Sorcerer ā€¢ Lord of Contagion ā€¢ Malignant Plaguecaster ā€¢ Plague Surgeon ā€¢ Tallyman ā€¢ Scarab Occult Sorcerer ā€¢ Scarab Occult Terminators
Troops Chaos Space Marines ā€¢ Havocs ā€¢ Chosen ā€¢ Chaos Terminators ā€¢ Possessed ā€¢ Greater Possessed ā€¢ Khorne Berzerkers ā€¢ Plague Marines ā€¢ Noise Marines ā€¢ Rubric Marines ā€¢ Obliterators ā€¢ Mutilators ā€¢ Chaos Spawn ā€¢ Fallen Angels ā€¢ Noxious Blightbringer ā€¢ Foul Blightspawn ā€¢ Biologus Putrifier ā€¢ Blightlord Terminators ā€¢ Deathshroud
Fast Attack Chaos Space Marine Bikers ā€¢ Chaos Space Marine Raptors ā€¢ Warp Talons
Chaos Dreadnoughts Helbrute ā€¢ Ferrum Infernus Dreadnought ā€¢ Chaos Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought ā€¢ Sonic Dreadnought ā€¢ Berserker Dreadnought ā€¢ Leviathan Dreadnought
Vehicles and Daemon Engines Chaos Rhino ā€¢ Chaos Predator ā€¢ Infernal Relic Predator ā€¢ Chaos Vindicator ā€¢ Chaos Land Raider ā€¢ Chaos Land Raider Proteus ā€¢ Infernal Relic Land Raider Achilles ā€¢ Land Raider Hades Diabolus ā€¢ Relic Sicaran Battle Tank ā€¢ Maulerfiend ā€¢ Forgefiend ā€¢ Defiler ā€¢ Brass Scorpion ā€¢ Blood Slaughterer ā€¢ Blight Drone ā€¢ Foetid Bloat-drone ā€¢ Kytan ā€¢ Plague Hulk ā€¢ Venomcrawler ā€¢ Myphitic Blight-hauler
Heavy Vehicles and Daemon Engines Spartan Assault Tank ā€¢ Fellblade ā€¢ Decimator ā€¢ Typhon Heavy Siege Tank ā€¢ Lord of Skulls ā€¢ Death Wheel ā€¢ Plaguereaper ā€¢ Plagueburst Crawler ā€¢ Silver Tower of Tzeentch
Aircraft Heldrake ā€¢ Stormbird ā€¢ Thunderhawk ā€¢ Chaos Storm Eagle ā€¢ Chaos Fire Raptor ā€¢ Hell Blade ā€¢ Hell Talon ā€¢ Harbinger ā€¢ Chaos Dreadclaw ā€¢ Kharybdis Assault Claw ā€¢ Fire Lord ā€¢ Doom Wing
Summoned Daemons Bloodletters ā€¢ Plaguebearers ā€¢ Horror of Tzeentch ā€¢ Daemonette ā€¢ Nurglings ā€¢ Beast of Nurgle ā€¢ Plague Drone ā€¢ Flamer ā€¢ Screamer
Lost and the Damned Chaos Cultists ā€¢ Poxwalkers ā€¢ Pestigor ā€¢ Plague Zombies ā€¢ Plague Ogryn ā€¢ Thrall Wizard ā€¢ Tzaangor ā€¢ Tzaangor Enlightened ā€¢ Tzaangor Shaman ā€¢ Dark Disciple
Champions Magnus the Red ā€¢ Mortarion ā€¢ Abaddon the Despoiler ā€¢ Kharn the Betrayer ā€¢ Typhus ā€¢ Ahriman ā€¢ Huron Blackheart ā€¢ Fabius Bile ā€¢ Cypher ā€¢ Haarken Worldclaimer ā€¢ Invocatus


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