Helot Chaos Cult
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| Affiliation: | Chaos |
| Found on: | Hive Worlds[1c] |
Helot Chaos Cults are a particular form of Chaos Cult, one that festers in the depths of a Hive beneath the notice of Imperial authorities. Despite heavy persecution they are never fully destroyed, spreading belief in the Ruinous Powers from hidden temples.[1c]
Overview
While helot cults work continually to add to their numbers and spread their influence, their true ambition is something far more sinister. They seek out places where the barrier between the Materium and Immaterium is weak, hoping to weaken it further through worship and sacrifice in order to summon Daemons. Cultist demagogues are careful to hide their existence until the precise moment to rise up, or else they risk being crushed by the Imperial regime.[1c]
Though no two helot cults are identical, their leaders are almost universally a caste apart from those they lead, pursuing their own goals that are in many ways incompatible with those of their followers. The rank and file hope for deliverance from their squalid lives, and are prepared to risk all for a chance at a freedom they are unlikely to ever see. The demagogues, however, tread a different path, seeking personal power and using the cultists as disposable weapons to be utilized and cast away to their own ends.[1c]
Some cults escape destruction after their discovery and journey into the lawless wastes of the underhive. Here they become outlanders, competing for the region's scant resources against mutants, redemptionists, and all manner of other rivals.[1c]
Known Helot Cults
- The Anathema[2b]
- Brethren of the Black Dawn[6]
- Club Octed[3]
- Coven of Eyes [1b]
- Creeping Sisters[1h]
- Cult of the Exquisite Corpse - Arose on Hive Prosperine on the eve of 40th Millennium under Mordrina Soth. She led what was at first a localized rebellion before overwhelming local Enforcers. She took over the Hive in a single night of bloodshed, fighting on for 17 more days before her rebellion was crushed.[1c][8]
- Cult of the Sump Mother[1f]
- Daughters of Serrated Thought[1e]
- The Gentle Order of Otherworldly Delights[12]
- Gentlemen of Pain[1b]
- God of Many Mouths’ cult[9]
- Gore Warriors[1a]
- The Fly Club[11]
- Immortal Cult[1b]
- Leechtown Liberation Front[7]
- Painted Despoilers[8]
- Screaming Brides[1b]
- Serrated Star[4][8]
- The Silas Sons[5]
- The Somnus Fellowship[2a]
- The Slaaneshi Sump Hunters[10]
- Sons of the Weeping Sore[1a]
- Soulless Few[1d]
- The stealers of Saint Soronous' blood[14]
- Weeping Sore[13]
- Woven Thread[1g]
- Wyrdborn[1b]
Trivia
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The term Helots is typically used to reference a subjugated group of people forced into servitude. The Helots of ancient Greece comprised the majority of the populations of Laconia and Messenia, ruled by Sparta, and who's forced labour supported the citizens of Sparta.
See also
Sources
- 1: Necromunda: The Book of Ruin:
- 2: White Dwarf 485 – Necromunda: The Aranthian Succession : Civil unrest engulfs Necromunda in the first part of a campaign, 'The Subjects of Necromunda'
- 3: Necromunda Facebook Page
- 4: White Dwarf April 2018, pg. 123 – Necromunda: Chaos Cult Gangs
- 5: White Dwarf 455, pg. 95 – Realms of Chaos: The Realm of Tzeentch
- 6: Necromunda: Ash Wastes, pg. 11 — Welcome to the Wastes
- 7: Warhammer Community: Creating a Chaos Cult in Necromunda (Posted on 19/11/2019) (Last accessed on 14 July 2020)
- 8: Warhammer Community: The Dark Gods rise in the Underhive (Posted on 04/09/2018) PDF File (Last Accessed on 27 October 2019)
- 9: Warhammer Community: Apocrypha Necromunda – Set Sail on Sump Sea (Posted on 25/07/2023) - Apocrypha Necromunda: Spiders of the Sump PDF, pgs. 2-4 (Last accessed on 25/07/2023)
- 10: Necromunda Facebook Page: NecroMonday
- 11: Necromunda Facebook Page: NecroMonday
- 12: Necromunda Facebook Page: NecroMonday
- 13: Necromunda: Hired Gun - Artbook, pg. 6
- 14: Necromunda: House of Faith, pg. 13 — House Cawdor Timeline: Blood of Martyrs
