Chaos Lord
An HQ choice for the Chaos Space Marines, in the game of Warhammer 40,000. They are basically like the traitor counterpart to a Space Marine captain or Chapter Master. They are very powerful, but they want more.
Types of Lords
The Chaos lords usually worship a god whether he(or he-she in the case of Slaanesh) be Khorne, Tzeentch, Nurgle or Slaanesh.
Here are the following lords of the Chaos gods.
Lord of Khorne: A crazed maniac who drinks blood, and eats whatever he just killed. Raw. They like using ECKSBAWKS HUEG battle-axes and swords and mauls and all that shit, and are generally the most savage and physically strongest Chaos Lords. Ironically though, they secretly love kitty cats. Kharn is the craziest motherfucker of all Khorne Lords, who'll kill you in his psychotic blood-lusting rage, but damn is he a great guy.
Lord of Tzeentch: Some douche-bag sorcerer who got his first magic-tricks set for Christmas from Tzeentch. A notable Lord of Tzeentch is Ahzek Ahriman of the Thousand Sons. Usually spellcasters who ignores armor and cover, causing much BAW.
Lord of Nurgle: Some disease filled piece of flesh. Better not give him a hug, or have any physical contact whatsoever, because you'll probably get some disease worse than AIDS (like an incurable version of Syphilis.) They're also nigh-indestructible. Typhus is a notable Lord of Nurgle.
Lord of Slaanesh: Slaanesh's boy toy. The guy is most certainly a drug-addicted pedophile omniphile, not unlike the Dark Eldar. Perks include the biggest drug stash and a stable full of sexually insatiable and adventurous men and women who are clusterfucking the shit out of each other. Lucius the Eternal is a Slaanesh Lord.
Lord of Chaos Undivided: Some wannabe guy who has yet to be hired by a Ruinous Power or can't make up his god damned mind.
Dark Apostle of the Word Bearers: A Chaplain who has fallen to Chaos. The three most notable Dark Apostles are Erebus (the architect of the Horus Heresy), Kor Phaeron (The Master of Faith), and Eliphas the Inheritor, the most goddamn sexy voice since Sindri (until they fucked up in DoWII) Steve Blum > you.
Chaos Terminator Lord: Chaos Lords of any alignment of Chaos wearing Terminator Armor. This makes them even more powerful and more badass.
Warhammer Fantasy's Types of Chaos Lords
Champions/Exalted Champions of Khorne: A blood-crazed maniac, not entirely unlike the lords of 40K; however, they all also act like Conan the Barbarian, except with huge armor and an even huger battleaxe/greatsword. Known for their tremendous strength, bloodlust, and balls-of-steel manliness. May also secretly like kittens, but alas, there are few kittens in the Old World. A prominent example of Khornate Exalted Champions is Arbaal the Undefeated.
Champions/Exalted Champions of Tzeentch: Douche-bag sorcerers, just like the ones in 40k, but the main difference is that they wear XBAWX HUEG ARMOR (although Sorcerors in 40k wear your typical pauldrons, so there really is not much difference between these douche-bag Sorcerors and those douche-bag Sorcerors)
Champions/Exalted Champions of Nurgle: Just like the ones from 40k. The only difference is that they have difficulty getting into their armor on account of their festering, huge, disgusting bellies. They will go out of their ways to hug you. An example would be Festus, the leechlord.
Champions/Exalted Champions of Slaanesh: Same as 40k but the horrors of Slaanesh seem to have deadened their fear, they will never break, and they are also described as very vain in the fantasy universe. An example would be Sigvald, the magnificent.
Champions/Exalted Champions of Chaos Undivided: See above.
Chaos Lords in DoW II
Since Chaos only came in during DoW II's first expansion, the only unique Chaos Lord featured thus far is a Black Legion champion named Araghast the Pillager, who is by far the biggest slice of chaotic awesome to break the previous DoW Chaos Lords' streak of awkward dialogue and meme production.
Araghast, Eliphas, and all other generic Chaos Lords (who are actually Eliphas) in skirmish are dedicated to Khorne, so that pretty much makes them a close-quarters monster. With goddamn health regeneration. At level one, with no wargear, he can easily take down anything short of a Howling Banshee squad. Give him his Lightning Claws and the Harness of Rage (restores energy whenever he hits something) and Dark Halo (causes energy to take damage first before health, very good if you kept getting), or Icon of Khorne (restores health with each attack) he'll become, without exception, the most lethal melee commander unit in the game. Srsly, he'll outdamage the Warboss and Hive Tyrant. This combined with his immunity to suppression from the get go, his fucktons of health (srsly, only the Hive Tyrant has more, and that only by a hairs breadth, though a Warboss with 'Eavy Armor or a Force Commander with Terminator armor will have a lot more health than he can have with any armor loadout. Though I guess that's off-set by the fact that those two have paper thin armor, and the CL was pretty durable, until they replaced his super-heavy armor with regular hero armor. Fuck it.) and his aforementioned health draining (Kill the Weak!) makes him one of the best/if not the best, commanders in the game.
Okay, he does have drawbacks. Since he's in Terminator Armor, he's slower than most other commanders, and both of his melee upgrade weapons cause him to lose ranged weapon. Also, his damage against vehicles in crap regardless of which weapon he has, and his other global ability, malignant blindness is generally useless (it reduces enemies to 1/10 of their line of sight, sounds great on paper, but in practice it doesn't do much since they can still see an enemy that's shooting them, so your hoping to nail heavy weapon squad, they will still chew up your units when you start shooting them). Also, while their damage against infantry is high, against vehicles it's crap. Which is a bitch against the vehicle happy Imperial Guard.
Notable Chaos lords
- Abaddon the Despoiler (Failbaddon the Armless) - Chaos Lord of the Black Legion and Warmaster of Chaos. Spends his time trying to conquer Cadia, and losing to Creed.
- Kharn the Betrayer (Pretty fun guy) - Chaos Lord of a World Eaters Warband. Spends his time killing everything in sight, including some of his fellow World Eaters. Reportedly has a hilarious sense of humor.
- Typhus the Traveler - Chaos Lord of a Death Guard Warband. Few can survive him in combat. Fewer still can live stand the smell long enough to try and fight him.
- Lord Bale (SSSSSSIIIIINNNNNDDDRRRRRIIII) - Was a Chaos Lord of an invading Alpha Legion Warband on the planet of Tartarus. Got Sindri'd by the trope namer Sindri Myr.
- Crull (BLOOD FOR TEH BLOOD GAWD) - Was the Chaos Lord of a World Eaters Warband on Lorn V.
- Eliphas The Inheritor - Formerly a Dark Apostle of the Word Bearers and a bootlick of Araghast, he then betrayed him and is now a Chaos Terminator Lord of the Black Legion.
- Firaeveus Carron (METAL BOXES) - Was a Chaos lord of the invading Alpha Legion Warband on Kaurava.
- Araghast the Pillager (Face me, if you dare!) - Was a Chaos Terminator Lord of the Invading Chaos Warband on Aurelia. Got Sindri'd by Eliphas.
- Nemeroth - Was a Chaos Terminator Sorcerer Lord of the Chosen of Nemeroth invading the forgeworld of Graia. He is noted in being the first Chaos Sorcerer in a Relic game with the use of Terminator Armour (With Araghast having the honor of being the first Chaos Terminator Lord of the Dawn of War series and Eliphas being the second Chaos Terminator Lord).