Daemonic Beast

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Beasts of Nurgle, a type of Daemonic Beast^[6]

Daemonic Beasts are a classification of Chaos Daemon.^[1]

These more primal entities are lowest type and least intelligent of Daemons. They are often granted to other Daemons and occasionally, one of the Gods' more powerful mortal followers. Daemonic Beasts are often used as Steeds for Lesser Daemons and their war engines. Some Chaos Champions also utilize Daemonic Steeds.^[1]

Types of Daemonic Beasts

Dark Tongue rune for Daemonic Steed.^[5]

Khorne

• Flesh Hound^[1]
• Juggernaut^[1]

Nurgle

• Battle Fly^[2]
• Beast of Nurgle^[1]
• Feculent Gnarlmaw^[5]
• Molluscoid^[4]
• Plague Fly
• Plague Wyrm^[10]
• Rot Fly^[3]

Slaanesh

• Fiend^[1]
• Seeker^[1]

Tzeentch

• Disc^[1]
• Mutalith Vortex Beast^[8]
• Screamer^[1]

Chaos Undivided/Unaligned

• Chaos Beast^[7]
• Daemon Shrike^[9]
• Daemon Behemoth^[9]
• Fury^[1]
• Leviathan^[11]

See also

• Chaos Spawn
• Daemon Engine
• Daemonic Herald
• Greater Daemon
• Lesser Daemon

Sources

• 1: Codex: Chaos Daemons (4th Edition), pgs. 36-43
• 2: Collected Visions, pg. 329
• 3: White Dwarf 399 (UK), pg. 4
• 4: Games Workshop Horticulous Slimux (last accessed 15 October 2020)
• 5: Games Workshop Feculent Gnarlmaw (last accessed 15 October 2020)
• 6: Warhammer Community: The Sixth Day of Nurgle: Beasts of Nurgle (posted 30/12/2017) (last accessed 15 October 2020)
• 7: Imperial Armour - Apocalypse Second Edition, pg. 109
• 8: Codex: Thousand Sons (8th Edition), pg. 31
• 9: The Horus Heresy Book Eight, pgs. 247-250
• 10: The Broken Crown (Short Story)
• 11: White Dwarf 292 (UK), pg. 95
• 12: Realms of Chaos: The Lost and the Damned, pg. 82