Daemon Engine
A Daemon Engine is a part-technological, part-daemonic vehicle employed by the various forces of Chaos.
Overview
Daemon Engines can vary greatly in form and function, but they are unified by one factor - the physical shells of the vehicles contain bound Daemons which control their actions. Daemon Engines have an insatiable bloodlust and revel in violence and destruction. Often they will destroy anything that lies in their path, regardless of allegiance, and so must be chained up until they can be unleashed upon the enemy. Like all entities of the Warp, Daemon Engines exude an aura of death and hatred that can overwhelm a lesser man. Untainted humans near one of these beasts often fall to their knees in horror and the demons presence fills their minds.[Needs Citation]
Creating a Daemon Engine requires that the entity be summoned by one who has knowledge of such things, such as a Chaos Warpsmith, sorcerer or priest. The Daemon is summoned into the hull of the machine so that the corruption spreads throughout its circuits, gaining complete control of all functions.[Needs Citation] The complex process also involves the creation of Weapon-slaves.[14]
Daemons can also be bound to static weapon system like artillery guns, potentially breaking free of their shackles and killing indiscriminately until placated.[16a] If such a gun is destroyed, the bound daemon is unleashed, creating psychic shockwaves in its rage, before disappearing into the sky.[16b]
Known forms of Daemon Engines
Unaligned / Variable alignment
- Calamity Engine[13]
- Decimator[10]
- Defiler[5]
- Forgefiend[11]
- Infernal Bombard[13]
- Heldrake[11] (unique among Daemon Engines, Heldrakes are a fusion of Chaos Space Marine, Daemon, and machine)
- Helstalker
- Maulerfiend[11]
- Soul Grinder[6]
- Venomcrawler
Daemon Engines of Khorne
- Blood Reaper[4]
- Blood Slaughterer[2]
- Blood Throne
- Brass Scorpion[2]
- Cauldron of Blood[1]
- Death Dealer[1]
- Doom Blaster[4]
- Kytan
- Lord of Battles[1]
- Lord of Skulls
- Skull Cannon
- Tower of Skulls[1]
Daemon Engines of Nurgle
- Blight Drone[2]
- Contagion
- Foetid Bloat-Drone[12]
- Myphitic Blight-Hauler
- Plague Hulk[8]
- Plague Tower[7]
- Plagueburst Crawler
Daemon Engines of Tzeentch
Daemon Engines of Slaanesh
Related Articles
Sources
- 1: White Dwarf 148 (UK)
- 2: Imperial Armour Volume Seven - The Siege of Vraks - Part Three pg. 151
- 3: White Dwarf 156 (UK)
- 4: White Dwarf 164 (UK)
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- 11: White Dwarf 394 (UK), pgs. 6–10
- 12: Warhammer Community Site - New Warhammer 40,000 Edition Launch Date Announced (last accessed 23 May 2017)
- 13: Arks of Omen: Abaddon, pg. 16 — Vashtorr the Arkifane
- 14: Tales from Vigilus 09: In the Belly of the Beast
- 15: The Citadel Journal 16, pg. 10 — The Everchanging Face of Chaos
- 16: Storm of Iron (Novel) — Iron Warriors: The Omnibus (Omnibus):
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