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==Overview==
Daemon Worlds are usually ruled by a [[Daemon Prince]], who can shape the world to his liking. Each of these worlds is a bizarre sub-reality ruled by terrible Daemon Princes.{{Fn|6}} The four [[Chaos Gods]] continuously compete to possess the Daemon Worlds. Armies of daemons and their living allies fight huge and bloody battles to determine which of the Chaos Powers will possess them. These battles often last for hundreds of years, so that the entire world becomes little more than a gigantic arena where the opposing forces are pitched against each other. The Chaos Powers do not, of course, appear in person to lead their armies - they are spectators to events, not participants. Their generals are [[Greater Daemon]]s and favoured Daemon Princes who, because they were once alive, understand the nature of both the material universe and the immaterial [[warp]]. Once a Daemon Prince has conquered a world, his grateful patron gives it to him as a gift to rule over as he wishes.{{Cite ThisMarker End}}
When a Daemon Prince takes control of his hard-won world, he uses his mighty powers to reshape it to a form that pleases him. Because of this, every world is different and all are equally spectacular in their own way.{{Cite ThisMarker End}}
The power of the warp has saturated Daemon worlds and sustains a cosmology based on the inhuman perceptions of Chaos. The most powerful [[psyker]]s have reported dreams or visions in which worlds of the [[Eye of Terror]] have been revealed to them. There are planets which are flat like dinner plates, worlds surrounded by circling fireballs which provide light and warmth, and tiered worlds like gigantic wedding cakes rising step-by-step on supporting pillars. On one world a black sun stands in a white sky and smoky threads pour from it onto a tangled black city - this is said to be [[Medrengard]], the world of the Daemon Prince [[Perturabo]], formerly the [[Primarch]] of the [[Iron Warriors]] [[Space Marine Legion]]. Another world has boiling lakes of blood from which spheres of fire float into the sky and spread their light across the firmament - the ruler of this world is the Daemon Prince [[Bubonicus (Character)|Bubonicus]], formerly a mortal [[Champion of Nurgle]] on one of the myriad lost worlds in the galaxy. Visions of such places disturb the psychically sensitive throughout the entire galaxy.{{Fn|6}}
