Daemon Prince
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In Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Fantasy Battle, people fall to Chaos for many reasons. Of these, the ones who desire power, sometimes called Chaos Champions, are most ambitious, and thus most likely to catch the attention of the Ruinous Powers.
Those who succeed in bringing glory to Chaos are rewarded with Daemon Princedom. They are granted a daemonic form and name, given power beyond any mortal, heretical or otherwise, and often placed at the command of an army, or a Daemon World.
Those who fail, or don't succeed fast enough, or who find themselves on the wrong end of a Chaos God on a bad day, or just don't bring enough glory fast enough, are "rewarded" with Chaos Spawn...OH SHI-dejrqeqemrwkqerwjrkewaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
In the Fantasy Flight Games WH40KRPG Black Crusade, this is what happens to a player character who reaches 100 Corruption with 100 Infamy. Should a PC reach 100 Corruption with less, he will be transformed into a Chaos Spaa... ha caught myself on that one, don't want to end up like my previous writer!
Famous Daemon Princes
- Doombreed, the first Daemon Prince of Khorne.
- Kraxnar, his bro in the original counter-based game "Warmaster" who was later replaced with some asshole called N'Kari.
- Some asshole called N'Kari... maybe. Nowadays he's apparently a Greater Daemon.
- Lorgar, Primarch of the Word Bearers.
- Perturabo, Primarch of the Iron Warriors
- Mortarion, Primarch of the Death Guard.
- Angron, Primarch of the World Eaters.
- Magnus the Red, Primarch of the Thousand Sons.
- Fulgrim, Primarch of the Emperor's Children, except it's actually just his body possessed by a Daemon. Or maybe not. Shit's weird at this point.
- Sindri Myr, though it wasn't long before Gabriel Angelos banished him; seeing as Daemons are functionally immortal, it won't be long till he's back.
- Azariah Kyras, heretical Chapter Master and Chief Librarian of the Blood Ravens and, apparently, Khornate Sorcerer. He still gets banished in DoW II: Retribution, but, again, Daemons are functionally immortal, so he'll be back eventually.
- Nemeroth, who got it even worse than Sindri: he was killed DURING his ascension rather than immediately afterward, which means he might not be back.
- M'kar, some loser from the Word Bearers whose only purpose for appearing in any fluff is get to his ass handed to him by the Space Marines. Ironically, he's taken more seriously in Grey Knights.
- Eliphas the Inheritor as of Dawn of War II: Retribution. Of course, Eliphas is so badass that becoming a Daemon Prince is a demotion for him.
- By which we mean, the Daemon Prince upgrade sucks, so you should never take it.
- Be'lakor, the very first Deamon Prince (in Fantasy, at least) who was such a badass in life that Princehood was a demot-- wait, we just made that joke, didn't we? Shit. Well, anyway, he led the hordes of Chaos at the dawn of time, but then he became an arrogant bitch, so Tzeentch cursed him to Princehood and made him the Harbinger, who would crown the Everchosen of Chaos. But hey, at least it's better than what that dick would have done.