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The '''Cognitae''' was a [[Chaos cult]] which took the form of an academy, run by its founder, [[Lilean Chase]]. According to [[Inquisitor]] [[Gideon Ravenor]], the Cognitae's aim was to develop, "by means [[psyker|psychic]], eugenic and noetic," a generation of individuals who would work to further the aims of [[Chaos]] in the [[Scaurus]] [[Sector]]<sup>1a</sup>.
Every "graduate" of the Cognitae was both highly intelligent and extremely dangerous<sup>1a</sup>. These included [[Zygmunt Molotch]], [[Jader Trice]], and [[Gall Ballack]]. According to [[Criol Fowst]], the Cognitae, or some version of it, had existed within the [[Imperium]] for millennia, as far back as before the [[Great Crusade]]. It also spawned several offshoots and imitators, some of which tried to recruit Fowst. He found some ideals in common with them, but ultimately rejected them in favor of his "true" calling, as a cultist in service to the [[Word Bearers]]<sup>2a</sup>.
== Sources ==
*<sup>1</sup>[[Ravenor Rogue (Novel)]] by [[Dan Abnett]]
**a: "Now" interlude before Part One, p. 29
*<sup>2</sup>[[Know No Fear (Novel)]] by [[Dan Abnett]]
**a: {{Cite This}}
[[Category:Chaos Cults and Mutants]]
[[Category:Ravenor (Novel Series)]]
[[Category:The Horus Heresy]]
