The screaming and newly-created machine-fiends must then be bludgeoned into submission until the time of battle is at hand. In the molten heat of the dark forges, the Warpsmiths trap the screaming Daemons within the rune-bound hulls of the giant metallic beasts they have captured or created. These captive Daemons are dragged biting and screaming into the flame-hearted citadels of the Dark Mechanicum. Beyond the soul forges of the Immaterium, Warp entities are bound in nooses of rope woven from the hair of murderers or with chains fashioned of scrimshawed bone. It is the Warpsmiths that bring hell-forged Daemon Engines into being, from Forgefiend gunbeasts to new Chaos Titans. Using corrupt rituals and forbidden alchemy, Adepts of the Dark Arts can force immaterial spirits into a physical shell of the Materium. Unlike the rituals of possession, the process of creating a Daemon Engine is not one of mutual assent. With the correct rituals, a devout Chaos Sorcerer or Word Bearers Dark Apostle can coax a Daemon to possess the body of a mortal man, but only the brotherhood of the Warpsmiths can bind an unwilling Daemon into a machine.
Even amongst the ranks of the Chaos Space Marines, there are few who understand how these immortal beasts are created. Fragments of ancient texts and post-action pict-captures have allowed Imperial strategos to gather that they are creatures of daemonic nature, but little else. The Imperium has little concept of how these affronts to sanity came into being. To compare a Daemon Engine to an ordinary vehicle is folly, for each of these beasts possesses its own malevolent sentience rather than a crew.īound within the battle-scarred metal of each Daemon Engine is the essence of a raging Warp entity, imprisoned in a physically indomitable body in order to better serve the Chaos Space Marines in their Long War against the servants of the False Emperor. Jutting from their armoured torsos are gargoyle-muzzled cannons and heavy weapon-arms that end in murderous tools of war. Daemon Engines are gigantic war machines that prowl on mighty piston-driven limbs. Tell me, mortal: have you ever seen such a glorious sight?"Ī mighty Daemon Engine of Chaos, in this case a MaulerfiendĪ Daemon Engine is a nightmarish artificial construct used by the forces of Chaos that is a fusion of a realspace vehicle or combat walker with a possessing daemonic spirit of the Warp. " Daemonic fury, bound into the shells of metal beasts and set loose upon the galaxy.
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