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'''The Flawless Host''' are a [[Chaos Space Marine]] warband. Autopsies made on the corpses of slain warriors have confirmed that the Flawless Host uses an extreme amount of [[combat drugs|combat stimulants]] in battle.{{Fn|1}} The warband tends to not just raid but conquer planets, where they proceed to enforce their twisted view of beauty.{{Fn|7}}{{Fn|12}}{{Fn|13}}

The Flawless Host was originally known as the '''Shining Blades'''. From a [[gene-seed]] once considered free from taint, they were known for their purity and rigid mental training. Their reputation and string of victories produced a great hubris, believing they could never be defeated. This led to the [[Berillia Massacre]] in 498.[[M34]], in which they slaughtered all they came across in a frenzy of indignation after their magnificence was supposedly questioned. Becoming overwhelmed by [[Slaanesh]] and renaming themselves the Flawless Host, they have been a plague to the [[Imperium]] ever since.{{Fn|3}}

In early [[M42]], the Flawless Host fought alongside the [[Black Legion]] during the [[War of Beasts]] on [[Vigilus]].{{Fn|9}} At some point in M42, they also enslaved the world of [[Novaris]], envious of their craftsmanship and forcing the population to produce many weapons for them. However this ended when the [[Indomitus Crusade]] arrived and the newly formed [[Silver Templars]] pushed them off the world. During the battle, the Flawless Host Lord [[Lyrius Soulslaver]] was slain by Captain [[Ducas]] of the 1st Company.{{Fn|12}}

*'''498.[[M34]]''': [[Berillia Massacre]]{{Fn|3}}

*'''723.[[M36]]''': [[5th Black Crusade]]{{Fn|14}}

*'''???.[[M42]]''' - Allying with [[Fabius Bile]] during the [[Pariah Crusade]]{{Fn|15}}

*[[Lashdrum Monarchs‎]]

*[[Luscious Few]]

*[[Villsid Skinsmen‎]]

*[[Flawless Cloak]]

*The [[Visionary]] — [[Chaos Lord]].{{Fn|7}}

*[[Eleaxus the Flawless]] — [[Champion of Slaanesh]].{{Fn|2}}

*[[Lyrius Soulslaver]] — Warlord. Slain by [[Silver Templars]] Captain [[Ducas]].{{Fn|12}}

FlawlessHostfigure.jpeg|Chaos Lord of the Flawless Host ''(conversion)''{{Fn|8b}}

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{{Trivia}}

*After their introduction in [[Codex: Chaos Space Marines (4th Edition)]], the Flawless Host were stated to possess the characteristic gene-seed markers of the [[Emperor's Children]] [[Traitor Legion]], making them a likely subfaction or offshoot of that Legion; further connections with the Emperor's Children included the resemblance of their armour and their shared devotion to [[Slaanesh]].{{Fn|1}} However, the [[Codex: Chaos Space Marines (6th Edition)|6th Edition Codex]] retcons and fills in their prior history, and confirms that they are a [[Renegade Chapter]], formerly known as the Shining Blades.{{Fn|3}}

*A warband of [[Emperor's Children]] calling itself the "Flawless Host" assaulted a unnamed [[Imperial]] world as part of a larger army, The [[Incarnadine Host]]. However, millennia of raiding, defeat, bitterness and bloodshed had reduced them to only five [[Chaos Space Marine|Marines]]. Before the last Imperial bastion was destroyed, in-fighting saw all but one of the Flawless Host killed. The survivor, a disfigured [[Apothecary]] named [[Le'Furion]] took the bodies of his fallen brothers and planned on using [[Dark Eldar]] technology to create a new body for himself out of the corpses. The Imperial bastion fell soon after to the [[World Eaters]] warband, the [[Blood Hounds]].{{Fn|4}} Whether this is the same warband is unknown.

*[[Chaos Space Marine Legions and Warbands (List)]]

*[[Space Marine Forces (List)]]

*{{Endn|1}}: [[Codex: Chaos Space Marines (4th Edition)]], pg. 20

*{{Endn|2}}: [[Apocalypse]], pg. 171