Mandari

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The Mandari were a Chaos Cult that fought for the Word Bearers during the Battle of Calth. Known as the 'gene-kin', they were bound by some combination of technology and genetics to the service of the Warp in such a way that they believed utterly they would be re-born immediately after their deaths into a new and glorious form. The Word Bearers promised the Mandari Gene-kin that they were in essence immortal. After apparent death, their corpses were observed gaining mutations and becoming monsters with little resemblance to their human forms.^[1a]

Trivia

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The Horus Heresy Book Five - Tempest gives two spellings for the cult's name: "Mandari"^[1a] and "Mendari"^[1b]. The first spelling is used again in Know No Fear (Novel)^[2], while the second one appears in The Horus Heresy - Crusade Imperialis: Army Lists^[3] (which compiles army lists from previous books).

Sources

• 1: The Horus Heresy Book Five - Tempest
  • 1a: pg. 143
  • 1b: pg. 209
• 2: Know No Fear (Novel), Dramatis Personae
• 3: The Horus Heresy - Crusade Imperialis: Army Lists, pg. 93