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Doomrider's origins are largely a mystery. It is known that he was once a [[Chaos Space Marine]], but anything beyond that is uncertain. According to some, he was once a member of the [[Emperor's Children]] [[Legion]], and lead their debauches during the [[Battle of Terra]]. According to other sources, he was a traitor from a different [[Chapter]], who went renegade after the [[Great Scouring]].{{Fn|3}} He has many names and titles used by those cultists that pay homage to him including the Demon of Speed, the Wolf of the Exhaust and the King of the Road.{{Fn|3}}
His physical presence when manifested in the material universe is of an angelically beautiful [[Astartes]] warrior clad in baroque [[Power Armour]], his body consumed from within by warpfire. Crowned with horns of onyx, his eyes are burning pits and his mouth is full of jagged fangs. The skin of his face shifts as it constantly regenerates over the damage the warpfire inflicts on his body, leaving creating around him a pallor miasma of exhaust fumes and the stink of burning flesh in his wake.{{Fn|3}}
Mounted on a Daemonically possessed [[bike]] adorned with deadly blades and spikes and wielding described as part insect, part corpse and part bat - its flaming wheels leave trails of screaming warpfire in it's wake.{{Fn|3}} Wielding his cruel [[Daemon sword]], he carves a bloody swathe across the battlefield as he mercilessly hunts his prey. He can be summoned by [[Chaos Cultist]]s in foul rituals to aid the forces of Chaos in battle, however he is highly unpredictable in nature and seldom stays in the material universe for very long, often returning to the warp as suddenly as he appears.{{Fn|1}}
He has become a target of the [[White Scars]] [[Chapter]], who have sent numerous [[Master of the Hunt]]s after him. All failed, however, to bring his head back to [[Chogoris]], instead returning empty-handed or having their own heads taken and mounted on his Daemonic bike.{{Fn|3}}
