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Adepta Sororitas
The Adepta Sororitas, commonly known as the Sisters of Battle, are the militant arm of the Ecclesiarchy, the state church of the Imperium of Man. They are an all-female order of warriors who serve as ...
Adeptus Mechanicus
The Adeptus Mechanicus is the technological arm of the Imperium of Man, a vast organization of Tech-Priests who worship the Machine God — the Omnissiah — whom they believe to be an aspect of the Emper...
Alpha Legion
The Alpha Legion, the XX Legion, were the last and most mysterious of the Space Marine Legions created during the Great Crusade. Masters of infiltration, misdirection, and covert operations, the Alpha...
Alpharius
Alpharius was the Primarch of the Alpha Legion, the twentieth and final Legion created. Uniquely among the Primarchs, Alpharius had a twin—Omegon—whose existence was kept secret even from the Emperor....
Astra Militarum
The Astra Militarum, formerly known as the Imperial Guard, is the largest military force in the galaxy — countless billions of soldiers raised from thousands of worlds to fight and die for the God-Emp...
Belisarius Cawl
Belisarius Cawl is an Archmagos Dominus of the Adeptus Mechanicus and one of the most brilliant — and controversial — Tech-Priests in Imperial history. Over ten thousand years old, Cawl has extended h...
Black Legion
The Black Legion is the largest and most feared of all Chaos Space Marine warbands, formed from the ashes of the Sons of Horus following the Horus Heresy. Led by Abaddon the Despoiler, the Warmaster o...
Black Rage
The Black Rage is a psychic curse that afflicts the Blood Angels Chapter and all of their successor Chapters, manifesting as an overwhelming genetic memory of their Primarch Sanguinius's death at the ...
Black Templars
The Black Templars are a Second Founding successor Chapter of the Imperial Fists, known for their eternal crusades and zealous hatred of the xenos, the mutant, and the heretic. Unlike other Chapters, ...
Blood Angels
The Blood Angels are one of the most noble and tragic Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes, descended from the Primarch Sanguinius. Founded as the IX Legion during the Great Crusade, they are renowned for...
Constantin Valdor
Constantin Valdor was the first and greatest Captain-General of the Legio Custodes, the Emperor's most trusted guardian and one of the few beings in the Imperium who could speak directly to the Master...
Cypher
Cypher is one of the most mysterious figures in the galaxy, a hooded warrior who has stalked the Imperium for ten thousand years bearing a sword that may be the Lion Sword of the Dark Angels Primarch....
Dark Angels
The Dark Angels are the First Legion, founded by the Emperor's hand and led by their Primarch Lion El'Jonson. They are among the most secretive of all Space Marine Chapters, haunted by a dark shame th...
Death Company
The Death Company is a unique and tragic formation within the Blood Angels Chapter and their successor Chapters, made up of Space Marines consumed by the psychic curse known as the Black Rage. These w...
Death Guard
The Death Guard are a Traitor Legion devoted to Nurgle, the Chaos God of plague and decay. Once the XIV Legion of the Emperor's Space Marines, they were led to damnation by their Primarch Mortarion du...
Deathwing
The Deathwing is the First Company of the Dark Angels Chapter, comprised exclusively of veterans clad in Terminator armor of bone-white. Unlike the dark green of their battle-brothers, the Deathwing's...
Grey Knights
The Grey Knights are the secret Chapter of Space Marines created specifically to combat the daemonic. Every Grey Knight is a powerful psyker, and their very existence is known to only a handful of ind...
High Lords of Terra
The High Lords of Terra are the twelve most powerful individuals in the Imperium of Man, forming the Senatorum Imperialis — the ruling council that governs in the Emperor's name. Since the Emperor's i...
Horus
Horus Lupercal was the Primarch of the XVI Legion, the Sons of Horus, and the first among the Emperor's sons to be named Warmaster. Once the Emperor's most trusted and beloved child, Horus fell to the...
Horus Aximand
Horus Aximand, known as "Little Horus" for his striking resemblance to his Primarch, served as Captain of the Sons of Horus 5th Company and was one of the four members of the Mournival, Horus's innerm...
Imperial Fists
The Imperial Fists are the VII Legion, founded by Rogal Dorn and renowned as the greatest siege masters in the Imperium. During the Horus Heresy, it was Dorn who fortified the Imperial Palace on Terra...
Imperial Knights
Imperial Knights are towering war machines piloted by Noble warriors from Knight Worlds scattered across the galaxy. These ancient suits of armor stand as tall as buildings and carry weapons capable o...
Indomitus Crusade
The Indomitus Crusade was a massive military campaign launched by the resurrected Primarch Roboute Guilliman in the aftermath of the Great Rift's opening, which tore the galaxy in two and plunged the ...
Iron Hands
The Iron Hands are the X Legion, founded by the Primarch Ferrus Manus and renowned for their embrace of bionics and disdain for the weakness of flesh. After Ferrus Manus was slain by Fulgrim at the Dr...
Iron Warriors
The Iron Warriors were the IV Legion of the Space Marine Legions, masters of siege warfare and fortification. Under the command of their bitter Primarch Perturabo, they prosecuted the Great Crusade's ...
Justaerin
The Justaerin were the elite First Company of the Sons of Horus, comprising the Legion's finest Terminators. Clad in black Cataphractii armor to distinguish themselves from their brothers, these warri...
Khenetai
The Khenetai Occult Blades were elite swordsmen of the Thousand Sons Legion, warriors who combined psychic mastery with sublime blade-work. Each Khenetai was a skilled psyker whose precognitive abilit...
Legio Custodes
The Legio Custodes, also known as the Custodian Guard, are the personal bodyguard of the Emperor of Mankind. Created using the Emperor's own gene-craft, each Custodian is a masterwork of genetic engin...
Leman Russ
Leman Russ, Primarch of the Space Wolves and known as the Wolf King, was raised among the savage tribes of Fenris and became one of the Emperor's most fearsome executioners. Unlike his brothers' more ...
Lernaean Terminators
The Lernaean Terminators served as the Alpha Legion's elite shock troops, equivalent to other Legions' First Company veterans. Clad in distinctive Cataphractii armor and armed with volkite chargers an...
Lion El'Jonson
Lion El'Jonson, the First Primarch, is the legendary master of the Dark Angels Legion and one of the Emperor's twenty sons. Raised in the death world forests of Caliban, he grew to become one of the g...
Magistus Amon
Magistus Amon was one of the greatest captains of the Thousand Sons Legion, serving as equerry to Magnus the Red himself. A member of the elite Scarab Occult and master of the hidden arts, Amon was am...
Magnus the Red
Magnus the Red, Primarch of the Thousand Sons and known as the Crimson King, was the most powerful psyker among the Emperor's sons. His single eye saw truths hidden from mortal sight, and his mastery ...
Mortarion
Mortarion, the Death Lord, is the Daemon Primarch of the Death Guard and one of the most powerful servants of Nurgle. Once the stoic master of the XIV Legion, Mortarion turned traitor during the Horus...
Night Lords
The Night Lords are a Chaos Space Marine Legion infamous for their use of terror, psychological warfare, and sadistic cruelty. Founded as the VIII Legion during the Great Crusade, they were created fr...
Orks
The Orks are a savage alien race that lives only for war, their entire culture built around fighting and conquest. These green-skinned brutes are among the most numerous species in the galaxy, and the...
Perturabo
Perturabo, Primarch of the Iron Warriors, was the Lord of Iron and master of siege warfare. Brilliant but bitter, he felt his Legion's achievements were never properly recognized while other Primarchs...
Roboute Guilliman
Roboute Guilliman is the Primarch of the Ultramarines Legion and currently serves as the Lord Commander of the Imperium — the de facto ruler of mankind's realm in the 41st Millennium. Created by the E...
Rogal Dorn
Rogal Dorn was the Primarch of the Imperial Fists Legion and one of the Emperor's most loyal sons. A master of defensive warfare, Dorn was chosen to fortify Terra itself against the traitor onslaught ...
Salamanders
The Salamanders are the XVIII Legion, founded by the Primarch Vulkan and renowned for their mastery of fire-based weapons and their unusually close bonds with the common people of the Imperium. Unlike...
Sanguinary Guard
The Sanguinary Guard are the elite honor guard of the Blood Angels Chapter, warriors who protect the Chapter Master and serve as living symbols of Sanguinius's legacy. Clad in ancient artificer armor ...
Sanguinius
Sanguinius, Primarch of the Blood Angels and known as the Great Angel, was perhaps the most beloved of all the Emperor's sons. Blessed with magnificent white wings and angelic beauty, he embodied nobi...
Sekhmet
The Sekhmet, also known as the Scarab Occult, were the elite Terminator warriors of the Thousand Sons Legion. Unlike other Legion terminators, every Sekhmet was a powerful psyker, able to combine deva...
Sigismund
Sigismund was the First Captain of the Imperial Fists during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy, renowned throughout the Legiones Astartes as perhaps the greatest swordsman of his era. His skill in co...
Sisters of Silence
The Sisters of Silence are psychic blanks, women born without any presence in the Warp. This null aura makes them anathema to psykers and daemons, causing intense discomfort and even death to those wh...
Sons of Horus
The Sons of Horus, formerly the Luna Wolves, were the XVI Legion of the Space Marine Legions and the personal army of Warmaster Horus. Once among the most celebrated of the Emperor's forces, they were...
Space Wolves
The Space Wolves are the VI Legion, fierce warriors from the death world of Fenris who embrace their savage nature rather than suppress it. Founded by Leman Russ, the Space Wolves disdain the Codex As...
T'au Empire
The T'au Empire is a young and expansionist alien civilization that believes in the Greater Good — a philosophy of unity and cooperation that has drawn many species into their fold. Unlike the stagnan...
Thousand Sons
The Thousand Sons were the XV Legion of the Space Marines, founded on Terra but transformed by their Primarch Magnus the Red into a Legion of scholar-warriors and psykers. Every battle-brother possess...
Tyranids
The Tyranids are an extragalactic swarm of alien organisms driven by an all-consuming hunger to devour all biomass in their path. Organized into vast Hive Fleets controlled by a gestalt consciousness ...
Ultramarines
The Ultramarines are the XIII Legion, founded by Roboute Guilliman and considered the exemplars of what it means to be a Space Marine. Their discipline, tactical flexibility, and adherence to the Code...
Varagyr
The Varagyr were the elite bodyguard of Leman Russ, the most savage and skilled warriors of the Space Wolves Legion. Clad in Cataphractii Terminator armor and wielding frost weapons of ancient Fenrisi...