List of Chaos Warbands

This article is comprised of a complete list of all the fanon Chaos Warbands created by our contributors here on the WH40K Homebrew Wiki. Along with a brief synopsis of each warband, this list also serves as a visual reference. This list does not include warbands that fall into the humour category. This is an ongoing project, and as such, additional warbands will be added or removed accordingly. For those warbands that are missing from the list, please feel free to edit this article and add it, or if the Chaos Warband article has been deleted, feel free to remove it.

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Ashen Disciples		The Ashen Disciples are a Thrallband of the Thousand Sons Traitor Legion, dedicated to the collection of knowledge relating to the arcane. Following the splitting of their legion in the aftermath of the first casting of the Rubric of Ahriman, the Ashen Disciples have wandered across the galaxy, scouring any worlds they come across for another piece in their quest, plaguing the Imperium with their presence for ten thousand years.
Ashen Exiles		The Ashen Exiles are a notorious Chaos Warband that were once known as the Spearheads, a formerly Loyalist Successor Chapter created during the lamentable 21st 'Cursed' Founding from the vaunted lineage of the Ultramarines. They were created by a group of Tech-Priests to created an Ultramarines Successor Chapter with a lower mutation rate than even their genetic forebears. Initially deemed successful, the Spearheads were considered one of the few successful Cursed Founding results and inherited the planet of Kastarsuz IV as their homeworld. However, this purity came at a cost. Although the Chapter was freed of physical mutations, their minds had become significantly weaker than the minds of other Astartes. The Astartes of the Chapter were more likely to develop mental disorders and were still corruptable by Chaos even when they were under the protection of their Brother Librarians. Eventually, they fell to the corrupting influence of the Ruinous Powers, becoming the notorious Chaos Warband known as the Ashen Exiles. (Excommunicate Traitoris)

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The Betrayed		The Betrayed are a Chaos Warband made up of traitorous Astartes that are former members of the Sworn of Guilliman, a formerly Loyalist Space Marine Chapter and sole known Successor Chapter of the Metamarines, created during the 26th Founding. Following the near-annihilation of the Chapter, during the events the now-rebellious Astartes call 'The Betrayal', the renamed Chaos warband, known as The Betrayed, are now slowly drifting towards pure Chaotic corruption - even if its members are still far from true believers - instead favouring the use of minor daemons as auxiliaries in their raids. (Excommunicate Traitoris)
Black Devourers		The Black Devouers are a notorious Chaos Space Marine Warband that was a formerly Loyalist Space Marine Chapter created during an Unknown Founding. Extant evidence points to this warband hailing from the proud lineage of the noble Rogal Dorn. To the shame of all Scions of Dorn, the fallen Black Devourers are descended from their lineage. They are one of the arch-foes of the Iron Blood Chapter, a feeling which is mutual. (Excommunicate Traitoris)
Blight Butchers		The Blight Butchers are a newly emerged Chaos Warband made up from the renegade elements of the traitorous Storm Zealots, Space Naga, and Thousand Blades Space Marine Chapter. The creation of the Blight Butchers were followed by the end of Skabbian Heresy in M42, where the traitorous forces were spirited away by the forces of Chaos Gods shortly before the destruction of Indravari II. The Blight Butchers are created from vengeance and bitter defeat the traitor Zealots, Nagas and Thousand Blades suffered from their former brethren. The Blight Butchers are masters in Berserker Assault as well as employing Virus weapons and daemons. (Excommunicate Traitoris)
Blood Jaws		The Blood Jaws are a formerly Loyalist Chapter of Space Marines created during an Unknown Founding, and from uncertain lineage, in 013.M37. This bellicose and ferocious Chapter was created in order to stand as a bulwark against constant attacks in and around the Eye of Terror, from both the Forces of Chaos and various xenos threats. Unfortunately, within the first century of their creation the Chapter fell from the light of the Emperor, for unknown to them, their first Chapter Master had been corrupted by a Greater Daemon of Khorne. Following their ill-fated sojourn into the Eye of Terror, the Blood Jaws were slowly corrupted by the insidious touch of the Blood God. When they finally emerged, they had been transformed into a large Chaos Warband, wholly dedicated to slaughter and murder. Now they commit the most obscene levels of carnage wherever they go, in tribute to their brutal and bloody deity. (Excommunicate Traitoris)
Bloody Hands		The Bloody Hands are a Chaos Warband dedicated to Chaos Undivided. Originally they were the Ruby Sabres, a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter from the 15th Founding. The Chapter was known for its close adherence to the Codex Astartes. They defended the Imperium from the countless enemies of Mankind for centuries. Yet one battle-brother would soon make a grave mistake on the world of Thesulia Prime. Now they fight against the Imperium, against those they once swore to protect. A large number of Alpha Legion have found their way into the warband, which the Bloody Hands have accepted with excitement, for any opportunity to sabotage the Imperium that the Alpha Legion uses, the Bloody Hands are glad to assist in (Excommunicate Traitoris)
Brethren of Hel		The Brethren of Hel were are formerly Loyalist 2nd Founding Iron Hands Successor Chapter known as the Iron Invictors. This Chapter, along with the Iron Gorgons, Iron Harbingers and the Templars of Iron, formerly made up a quadrumvirate of 2nd Founding Iron Hands Successors, collectively known as the Frateris Firmitatis ("The Ironclad Brotherhood"). Unfortunately, the Iron Invictors' pathological obsession with certain forbidden mysteries and nightmare sciences of the Dark Age of Technology eventually saw them being declared Excommunicate Traitoris, and cast out of the Imperium. Now they are hunted by their former erstwhile brethren, who will not rest until they see this warband utterly destroyed. (Excommunicate Traitoris)
Bringers of Change		The Bringers of Change are a notorious Chaos Warband comprised of the remnants of the formerly Loyalist Grey Gorgons, a Successor Chapter of the stoic and unforgiving Iron Hands, created during the 25th Founding. They are currently led by the former Librarian and now Sorcerer Lord Thanatos. They are known to worship the Minor Chaos God Charon, and to a lesser extent, Tzeentch. Although the core group of members of this warband were all originally Traitor Grey Gorgons, casualties have reduced their number, and it is not known if any still live. Some of the Chapter may have remained loyal and may have even fought during the Centurion War against their former brothers. (Excommunicate Traitoris)

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Crow's Children		The Crows Children are a notorious Chaos Warband made up of Heretic Astartes formed from the renegade Order of the Crow from the Loyalist Penitent Knights Chapter. Daedelus, the Warband's Chaos Lord, fell to the Ruinous Powers and turned traitor against his Chapter Master, Lithandros, after constant frustrations over the Highlord's sympathy for the mortal civilian life of the Imperium. And even when Lithandros reprimanded Daedelus for disregarding orders, a strange voice whispered into the ear of the Knight Captain, telling him that he would have his day. After the mutiny of the Order of the Crow, and the company escaped into the Warp, the powers of Chaos changed them all to Chaos Space Marines, and their sole mission was to destroy their loyalist brothers. (Excommunicate Traitoris)

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Dark Core		The Dark Core is a large Chaos Warband that has gained infamy for the past ten millennia. They are known to attack various Imperial military forces, xenos armies, and even fellow Chaos Forces. This is because they are one of the rare few who worship the Renegade Chaos God, Malice. As such they see it as their duty to spread discord and destruction, fighting only the best enemies in order to appease their Dark God. Since they do not worship the other Gods of Chaos, they have little Daemons, instead forcefully binding lesser Daemons to machines, having a large number of Daemon Engines to serve them. The warband is also infamous to raiding Rogue Traders, Imperial Navy Ships and even Loyalist and Chaos Space Marine ships, adding their vessels to their growing fleet and forcing the survivors into the service of Malice.
Dusk Born		The Dusk Born are a notorious Chaos Warband that abandoned their duty for a power and pride only offered by the Dark Gods. Created during the 4th Founding, they were once known as the Dusk Crusaders - proud servants of the Emperor - who hailed from the lineage of the dutiful Rogal Dorn. Now they serve the Ruinous Powers, fully devoted to spreading their heretical faith throughout the area surrounding the Maelstrom.

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Forsworn		The Forsworn are an infamous Chaos Warband of Heretic Astartes dedicated to the perfection of killing, and thus servants of the Chaos God Slaanesh. The feared Warband stalks Imperial space lanes, plundering and murdering as they see fit. This was not always so, for once they were a promising Loyalist Space Marine Chapter, aspiring to great accolades and glories, the former Astral Consuls fell into a tragic downfall of ill-fate which led to the destruction of their beloved home-planet of Costov, as well as the branding of the Chapter as Excommunicate Traitoris and declared Renegades. (Excommunicate Traitoris)
Forsaken Hammers		The Forsaken Hammers are a group of renegade Space Marines from the Hammer Guard and Solar Wardens Chapters. Originally just a company of Hammer Guard were lost in the warp during their penitent crusade, but their warband continued to grow, and now, they seek revenge on those who have forgotten them and do not see the power of the Great Stars, the Gods of Chaos. (Excommunicate Traitoris)

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Heirs of Lupercal		The Heirs of Lupercal are a notorious Chaos Warband whose origins hearkens back to the ancient days of the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras, when they were originally the 22nd Company of the Sons of Horus. Following the defeat of the Traitor Legions during the epic Siege of Terra, and subsequent flight into the Eye of Terror, the 22nd Company struggled to survive the internecine conflicts fought between the various Traitor Legions. Eventually, the broke off from the main body of the XVI Legion and formed their own warband, renaming themselves the 'Heirs of Lupercal'. Since that bygone age, this warband has continued to plague the realms of the Mankind in their neverending Long War.

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Keepers of Equity		The Keepers of Equity are a notorious Chaos Warband of unknown origin and Founding. They have continuously plagued the Imperium, raiding Imperial worlds and space lanes, disappearing as suddenly as they arrived. It is not known if this warband is comprised of various renegade Space Marines or of they are a splinter faction from one of the Traitor Legions. They remain elusive to Imperial forces, but continue to remain a thorn in the Imperium's side.
Knights of Laeran		The Knights of Laeran are a Chaos Warband devoted to Slaanesh, derived primarily from the Emperor's Children. They are particularly infamous for their tendency to infiltrate, fortify, and corrupt Imperial pleasure worlds, rather than the raiding and pillaging typical of Slaanesh worshipers. However, having recently claimed the world of Laeran as their own, they have since shifted their focus to defending this world from their arch rivals, the Knights Celestial and House Blackstone, as well as repaying the various debts they took on in order to claim it. (Excommunicate Traitoris)

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Leviathans Eclipse		The Leviathans Eclipse are a notorious Chaos Warband that was created from the corrupted Lord Executioner Androgous Mokurn of the Novus Krakens Space Marine Chapter. Since their formation at the start of the Fall of Mobidium in 837-838.M41, these renegade Astartes disappeared from all official records. It wasn't until the Cicatrix Maledictum ripped the galaxy asunder in 999.M41, that the first eye-witness accounts began to filter back to the Imperium's high-command of the re-emerged Chaos Warband called the Leviathans Eclipse, now wholly dedicated to the Ruinous Powers, continuously conducted raids against various worlds of the Imperium surrounding the Eye of Terror. Since that time, they have been spotted in various sectors throughout the Segmentum Obscurus. (Excommunicate Traitoris)

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Night Lord 38th Company		The Night Lords 38th Company are a large group of Renegades that split from their parent Traitor Legion following the death of their Primarch Konrad Curze on the world of Tsagualsa. Like their brothers they do not worship any of the four Chaos Gods individually, but acknowledge them equally in the form of Chaos Undivided but in reality they see them only as a means to an end, using them so that they can enact their own twisted vision for the Galaxy.

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Obsidian Suns		The Obsidian Suns, known formally as the Cult of the Obsidian Sun, are an unconfirmed Chaos Warband of the Fallen Primarch, Magnus the Red, of the once Loyal XV Legion - the Thousand Sons. Splitting off from the bulk of their Legion, this roving Chapter eventually found their own world to call their own and claimed it in the name of the Lord of Change - Tzeentch.

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Privileged		The Privileged are an infamous Chaos Warband that were formerly known as the Sons of Tyreme, a Successor Chapter of the stoic Imperial Fists that was created during the 23rd 'Sentinel' Founding in the latter part of M37. After two millennia of loyal service, the Chapter eventually fell to the corrupting influence of Chaos in M39 and were declared Excommunicate Traitoris by the High Lords of Terra. They later became the Chaos Warband known as The Privileged. (Excommunicate Traitoris)

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Ravager Jackals		The Ravager Jackals are a bellicose and savage Chaos Warband that fanatically follows the Blood God Khorne. Originating from the merciless and uncompromising Iron Warriors Traitor Legion, a tetrarchy of former Warsmiths formed a separate formation and struck out on their own, eventually becoming the notorious Ravager Jackals Chaos Warband. (Excommunicate Traitoris)

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Servants of the Truth		The Servants of the Truth are a Chaos Warband formed at the end of the Horus Heresy by Blood Angels that turned away from the Imperium. The Servants of the Truth are primarily driven by their belief that in his final moments the Primarch Sanguinius turned to Chaos before being slain by not Horus, but the Emperor. Thus, by their service to the Ruinous Powers, they are fulfilling their Gene-Father’s final orders. Excommunicate Traitoris
Shackles of Khorne		The Shackles of Khorne are a ferocious, if oddly lucid, band of Chaos Space Marines and fanatic cultists followers. Led by their enigmatic and devout Dark Apostle, Lord Arkhamos Esephotokylanam, who despite being a devout lord of the Blood God, is as intelligent and cunning as any Tzneetchian tactician. Their goal, is to consume the entire galaxy in an orgy of blood and violence, and to this end, recruit as many followers and devotees as they can. As a result, those entering battle with the Shackles of Khorne risk not only their lives, but their souls, as these scions of the blood god will capture alive those enemies they deem worthy, and break them, until they are fanatic disciples of Khorne. Excommunicate Traitoris

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Templars of Thorne		The Templars of Thorne are a Chaos Warband fully devoted to the concept of Chaos Undivided, but wary of becoming their pawns. The warband was originally founded in M37, and fell to Chaos on 437.M38 over the recovery of a Gloriana-class Battleship. Ever since the fall, the warband has been raiding the Imperium for supplies, slaves, and for the simple joy of the hunt. The Templars of Thorne have also been known to participate in various Black Crusades for the chance to gain loot, renown, and the blessings of the dark gods.

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