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Weaver

Her Celestial Highness Taylor Hebert, Lady Weaver, Duchess of Brockton, Basileia of Nyx, Living Saint Weaver, Lady General Militant of the Imperial Guard, Empress of the Aeldari Empire, Peer of Terra, Baroness of Pavia, Duchess of Commorragh

The main character of the story. Has the ability to mentally control arthropodes and other creatures with simple minds. After getting mysteriously transported from the radioactive ruins of New Delhi to the planet of Fay, thirty-three millenia in the future, Taylor resolves to make the most of her current situation — and unknowingly gaining more power, allies and enemies as time passes.

Ace Custom: Taylor's Angel's Tear pattern power armor, the Angel's Tear, is this as it's her armor that gives the armor pattern type its name. It's also an Infinity +1 Sword in terms of armor among non-Transhuman armors available, and normal versions of the Angel's Tear don't leave their users wanting either.
Affirmative-Action Legacy: It's indicated the Blood Angels will grow to consider her as their gene-sire Sanguinius' heiress.
The Ageless: Discussed. Taylor, after seemingly not aging at all within 12 years, wonders if the Emperor had made her immortal to old age. However, she admits that it could simply be too short of a time period to tell.
Ambiguously Bi: Uncertain. While Taylor pays somewhat attention to Wolfgang Bach, she is in a well-established and committed relationship with Wei Cao. Wei is also apparently at least theoretically planning for a seraglio for Taylor, although Weaver is strongly opposed.
Anti-Magic: In Arrival 1.4, Tech-Priest Enginseer Morkys notes that Taylor's psychic level is Upsilon, making her immune to the Warp corruption. No one has tried to measure her level after becoming a Saint, though.
Arch-Enemy: She gets eight of them across the story, collectively nicknamed as the Endbringers.
Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Taylor is a Lady General of the Imperial Guard and the Governor of Nyx Sector and is an immensely powerful being who has taken on Greater Daemons, Eldar, and Orks and won. Even the extremely haughty Lelith compliments her abilities.
Awesomeness Is a Force: Her golden aura as a Saint tends to mentally push some people to the point they can't stand looking at her or even approaching her.
Barrier Maiden: What she becomes after fighting Ka'Bandha, serving as a shield preventing the Black Rage to gain a foothold in the Blood Angels' souls.
- Later becomes this for the Tau Earth Caste as well.
Beware the Nice Ones: Befitting her angel motif, Taylor is a kindhearted woman who's deeply pained by others' misery and seek to improve their lives. Also befitting her angel motif, she will utterly destroy any foe threatening Mankind.
Biblical Motifs: Saint Weaver is closely associated with angels, be it from her Blood Angels protectors or her kindness towards people.
Butch Lesbian: Contrasting with Wei Cao, Taylor favors pants as everyday wear and martial leanings.
The Chains of Commanding: Taylor feels quite nauseated by the fact her ascending to Nyx's governorship means she's responsible for billions of humans thriving or dying.
Chekhov's Gun: In Muster 6-3, Taylor captures the third assassin sent against her by Clan Vandire, disarming the Calldius of her Phase Sword. In Extermination 8-3, Taylor reveals the C'tan blade in order to stab "Fulgrim" repeatedly in the face, permanently wounding him, severing his control of the Third Legion, and allowing her to kill him, sending him back to the Warp.
Chest of Medals: Has won a ludicrous number of awards for someone who only spent a year in active Guard service before going on half-pay, including the Ultima Honorifica and the Star of Terra.
Combat Pragmatist: Taylor absolutely does not believe in fighting 'fairly', stacking up as many advantages as she can and using very ruthless and underhanded tactics in all of her fights.
Cool Sword: She spends most of the story with one, but later gains a second:
- Elsar'bryn, the Nebula's Shard (72nd Sword of Vaul). Originally in Trazyn's power, he gifted it to Weaver in the aftermath of Nyx, and she has used it ever since. Stabbing a creature with it causes their life-essence to be absorbed. Daemons are burned and crystallize beyond their regeneration ability, with the shards themselves also capable of burning other daemons. The weapon can also become a swarm of size-shifting, impossibly sharp crystal shards that can deal similar damage, which allow her to launch a rain of crystals numbering in the millions, shoot spear-like long crystals or just increase the range of her slashes to shred hundreds of enemies at range. It can also turn the bodies of those she has stabbed into more shards that can temporarily increase her shard swarm. Finally, its psychic field can be charged with Taylor's Saint Anathema power and life-essence or psychic energy, allowing her to boost the former powers.
- In Black Crusade 10-1, the second weapon she commissioned Cawl to make was a large blade that resembled the Nebula's Shard. Made from Adamantium, Adamantine, several priceless alloys from Terra, a crystal of Aethergold and using contruction methods taken from the Sisters of Silence that have been modified by Cawl.
Covert Pervert:
- She uses her insects to spy on Wei while she changes her clothes.
- After the Commorragh Crusade, Taylor spends a lot of the time immediately afterwards having a well-deserved rest, and refuses to get up when Wei tries to wake her for various meetings and celebrations. However when Wei mentions that, if she's fast, they can have breakfast and a shower together, Taylor shoots outs of bed, makes out Wei for several seconds and lustfully mentions that she should have started with that.
Cuteness Proximity: When Marianne Gutenberg brings her Mainz Cat to a meeting with her, Taylor loses no time petting her — and keeps doing it throughout the entire conversation.
Damned by Faint Praise: Taylor muses being praised as far more active and benevolent than the previous Menelaus Governors or Nostradamus Vandire really isn't saying anything.
Determinator: Taylor doesn't give up. Ever. In war or peace, if she decides to do something, it will get done. After her fight against Ka'Bandha, everyone was amazed she even managed to stand up on two broken legs, let alone hand the fifty foot tall demon a Curb-Stomp Battle.
Disintegrator Ray: In Black Crusade 10-1, it's revealed she commissioned Cawl to get for her a single-barrelled Adrathic Destructor for Operation Stalingrad, a weapon type that hasn't been used by anyone by Custodes and Sisters of Silence.
Divine Right of Kings: Downplayed, but her ascension to Sainthood definitely helped her to win the seat in the election for Nyx's Governorship.
The Dreaded: After her key role in destroying Commorragh, virtually all Eldar worlds decide that the best policy in regards to Weaver is avoid attracting her attention if possible and flee on sight.
Embodiment of Virtue: As a Living Saint, she holds an aspect shard of the Emperor within her that represent a part of His being that she embodies. She also holds an aspect of Sanguinius from the Baal Ruby she took back from Ka'Bandha the Angel's Bane at the beginning of her Sainthood. Those aspects are revealed to be "Sacrifice". Come Ovation 9-1, she seems to develop a new aspect of "Truth", though it is unknown where she got it from.
- In 11.4, bolded text indicates her domains are Hope, Sacrifice, and Administration.
Emotional Powers: The anger at learning that Scion destroyed her home makes her power's range nearly double.
Fantastic Racism: Courtesy of her military career, Taylor starts to dip into this regarding Orks and Eldar. To be honest, she does have a point — what with both of them killing so many people.
Fiction 500: Thanks to her finding the STC Database, she became really rich. Her many investments, the use of her powers to produce luxury products and her position as Basileia of Nyx ensured she became filthy rich. Then came Operation Caribbean, where, due to a quirk of the prize laws, she automatically got a 40% cut of all the loot and the bounties from both Pavia and Commmorragh, and now she could probably finance a 20th century superpower out of her pocket money.
Four-Star Badass: Taylor as of receiving the Star of Terra (highest medal in the Guard, second highest in the Imperium), as well as all the other medals and commendations she has received, automatically made her a General. She later receives a second Star of Terra and is promoted to Lady General.
From Nobody to Nightmare: Taylor enters the story as a lightly armored girl with the power to control insects and a jetpack. Within a decade, she becomes one of the Imperium's most capable Sector Governors, an absolute terror in the battlefield thanks to her sword-fighting skills and her control of Death World insects, and a Living Saint that led an army to destroy Commorragh.
Gold and White Are Divine: To let everyone know she's a Living Saint, the Mechanicus gifted her a Power Armor made of Auramite and Argentamite (gold and silver-colored metals).
Good Is Not Soft: Taylor seeks to build a more just world on Nyx, but that involves a particularly vicious purge of the corrupt nobles.
The Glasses Gotta Go: She used to wear glasses but after joining the Imperial Guard, she got her eyes fixed up to see clearly and no longer needed glasses anymore.
Happily Married: She and Wei finally tie the knot in Ovation 9.4. Best shown when she refuses Atharti's advances.Though it appears she is open to having more potential wives as she has begun a relationhip with Vicequeen Marianne Gutenburg as of Chapter 59.
Harem Seeker: Averted. Although Wei brings up the suggestion of making Alyena Sinblade the first of their seraglio, and explains the benefits of harems, Taylor dislikes them due to harems becoming an easy loophole to express sexual perversions legally and because having a harem would mean more trouble and quarrels at the end of the day in her downtime.Though she appears to have rethought her stance since then as she has begun a relationhip with Vicequeen Marianne Gutenburg as of Chapter 59..
Heroic Sacrifice: Weaponized. After getting the Sanguinor's powers, she can provide soldiers with an incredible boost of power at the cost of their bodies burning out and their souls being forced to fight in the Immaterium until final victory or destruction. She finds the power seductive and terrifying so she uses it as sparingly as possible.
The High Queen: She's the Basileia (Ancient Greek term for a Byzantine empress) of Nyx, and tirelessly works to ensure her sector's prosperity and productivity.
Hope Bringer: What she is for the Imperium at large, as her actions tend to massively improve the situation for mankind.
How Do I Shot Web?: When Taylor gains her Saint wings she should be able to make them disappear and reappear at will, but is still struggling with this a few days later to Wei's mild annoyance. Word of God is that Taylor is actually incapable of making them disappear.
Jeanne d'Archétype: The God-Emperor Himself sent her to save the galaxy, a young woman whose powers utterly baffle the Imperium and quickly grows to be a legend among the Imperial Guard for always leading her troops to glorious victory.
The Joy of First Flight: Taylor's reaction when she flies after she gains her Saint Wings. She has to try not to giggle in joy of the novelty of being able to fly under her own power.
Kill the God: Is directly responsible for the death of two gods: Slaanesh and Khaine.
Lady and Knight: Her formal relationship with Gavreel Forcas, who swore an oath of protection towards her.
Light Is Good: Her Colour Motif is gold and white, and she's strongly associated with light as she's surrounded by a Saint's radiance and her Dawnbreaker Guard.
Locked into Strangeness: The more she draws upon her connection to the Emperor, the more her skin gains in radiance and her hair turns golden. As of Extermination 8.1, Taylor has traded the golden hair for a pair of golden wings. Her general appearance has also changed; all human imperfections and numerous scars are gone, giving her a more regal and angelic, but also inhuman, look. After defeating Iash'uddra in The Throne of Oblivion she gets a Gold-Red Aura.
Long-Lived: She will be Governor of Nyx for at least 114 years, which is nicknamed the First Age of the Saint… out of ten such Ages. Liandra - the former Hekatii - confirms she will live about twenty thousand years. Taylor is stumped she is going to live five times longer than the Imperium had been around.
Majorly Awesome: Started out as a Major in the Imperial Guard, then became a Major General
Modest Royalty: She's really not a fan of hours-long pageantry or pimped-out clothing.
A Mother to Her Men: She tends to go ballistic on the enemies killing one of her soldiers right in front of her.
Nerves of Steel: Faces off against Ka'Bandha without fear and kicks his ass.
Next Tier Power-Up: Taylor gets more powerful as a Saint the more she pushes her power in strenuous situations, such as her battle against Ka'Bandha, her mental battle with the Catachan Queen Hive Mind and the Tyranid Hive Mind through a Hive Tyrant on Catachan, and her sword fight with Drazhar. Lelith, after taking a subtle peek in her mind, realises that with just two more battles like Commorragh, her Shard will undergo a transformation with all the influx of the Emperor's power.
- In The Throne of Oblivion, she gains another level due to Iash'uddra killing 3 of her Dawnbreaker Guard in spite of an active Null Field. After the Null Field goes off, she gets stronger and teams up with the Sanguinor to kill Iash'uddra. In the aftermath the Sanguinor and the Second Primarch pass their powers onto her before dying. She then battles Be'lakor for 90 hours and permanently kills him while claiming the Tau Earth Caste.
- Then she absorbs the power of Sanguinius from where he died in the Eye of Terror before making her claim of Empress of the Aledari official and managing all of Slaanesh's shards. She and Aurelia defeat Khaine and use their powers to fully build Atharti as a subordinate to her. She and Aurelia also each absorb one of the Ancient Aledari Muses to return to Macragge.
Nouveau Riche: Is this for a large amount of the Imperium's Aristocracy, as some like Xerxes Vandire see her as "a rat with delusions of grandeur".
Offered the Crown: After she was instrumental in saving Fay, Taylor could easily have laid claim to the Governorship but decides to join the Guard instead. She ended up accepting the offer when the Governorship of Nyx was offered later.
Overranked Soldier: Major at 16. Major General at 17. Full General at 22. Lady General at 23. Lady General Militant at 37.
Person of Mass Destruction: Taylor was already capable of dealing out absurd amounts of damage with regular insects; now that she has Death World insects under her control, she's very much this trope.
Power Crystal: The Baal ruby she stole from Ka'Bandha. Not only did the gem initially decorate Sanguinius' armour, it now serves as the material anchor for the shield against the Black Rage.
Power Perversion Potential: Her ability to see through her insects' eyes has less than wholesome uses — see Covert Pervert for one of them.
Rags to Royalty: Goes from being the daughter of a dockworker in a city that hadn't had much of a shipping industry for years, to being the obscenely wealthy ruler of an entire galactic sector.
Reasonable Authority Figure: She's probably one of the most reasonable, charismatic and competent governors in the entire Imperium.
Red Baron: The Orks know her as "Da Swarm Bringa" because of her ability to control insects. The Dark Eldar nickname her The Angel of Death.
Red Is Heroic: As her power as a Saint grows, Weaver starts to be associated with rubies and red shades.
Refuge in Audacity: During the Raid on Commorragh, one of her tasks is to take control of the Webway to disconnect the Terran Gate from most of it. How does she do it? When she realizes she fits the criteria, she claims the crown of the Aeldari Empire.
Seduction-Proof Marriage: Turns down a tryst with the literal Goddess of Seduction because she's married.
Semantic Superpower: She's able to steal control of the Canoptek Scarabs from Iash'uddra, in spite of these Scarabs not being living insects. This is explained way later in Ovation 9-4: Canoptek Scarabs are actually the insects of the Necrontyr homeworld, and numerous other planets, after being forced through biotransference by the C'tan. Taylor's power can recognise and control them because they still contain the "vital energy" of insect lifeforms.
Stop Worshipping Me: Weaver would really like for people to not prostrate themselves when she walks into the room, but every time she progresses on this front, she has to do the song and dance again with newcomers.
Super-Empowering: She seems to be able to give her Anathema psychic energy to people to, at the very least, increase their physical abilities, such as when she used her ants to pour her Anathema energy into Theodora Gaius, giving her the strength to hold onto the blade arms of the Daemon Primarch Fulgrim AKA Fazar'nzlath'hesh that had been impaled into her.
Telepathy: Well, of course, since she controls her insects through telepathy. However, it goes a step further: if a species she controls is a sapient alien species, not only can she control them but she can also see species' memories, as shown when she takes command of an Uluméathic briefly and sees the numerous worlds they have consumed and their thoughts and feelings from those moments and memories. There is still the issue of the language barrier, however, so even if she sees examples of their writing she wouldn't understand it straight-up.
Underestimating Badassery: Not quite to the point of her original series, where it was a Running Gag that virtually every opponent would think "Meh, I can take her" when they first saw her. Still, Taylor does end up on the receiving end of this trope a lot, mostly due to Fantastic Racism (the Eldar) and/or the other person being Too Dumb to Live (most nobles).
Universally Beloved Leader: She is possibly the most beloved person in the entire Nyx Sector, thanks to her sweeping reforms, her efforts to ensure everyone under her rule can benefit from said reforms, her personal work to aid others, and the purges of nobility to eliminate the worst while allowing the rest to earn the chance to atone or shine.
Winged Humanoid: As of Extermination 8.1, Saint Weaver finally obtained her golden wings.
With Great Power Comes Great Hotness: After her third Saint power-up that grants her wings, Clockblocker notes a lot of her old scars had disappeared along with some physical imperfections that made her more human. She now not only looks far more noble and regal, but she is now beautiful enough to be considered "angelic", not counting of course her wings.
Worthy Opponent: Many of the most dangerous beings in the Galaxy consider her this. The Orks call her "Da Swarm Bringa", Khorne will not settle for anyone but him claiming Taylor's skull, the Captain-General of the Adeptus Custodes accepts her as a dangerous individual, and Lelith Hesperax fights her and compliments her skills as "somewhat acceptable" (which is high praise coming from her), even naming her Empress of the Aeldari.
You Have Failed Me: In peace, Lady Weaver won't hesitate to fire an incompetent's arse or send them to a Penal Legion. In wartime, General Weaver will merely order the Lord-Commissar to shoot the dumbass down.
You Remind Me of X: Rogal Dorn outright tells her she's very much like Sanguinius in temperament, and the Great Angel would have been proud to have her in his Legion.

Dragon

Tech-Priest/Magos-Draco/Lady Magos Dogma/Archmagos Dragon Richter

Once upon a time Earth Bet's foremost Tinker, the Artificial Intelligence known as Dragon found herself in a Adeptus Mechanicus' computer. After making herself a body that could pass as human-like, she was exiled to another planet after an heretek showed up — and, by pure accident, encountering her former enemy and ally Taylor Hebert. Deciding to join her in her travels proves to be a decision that allows her to use her great intellect in support of humanity.

Animal Mecha: She produces a number of Dragon Armors which are indeed shaped like dragons, partially to take the shape back from Chaos and its heldrakes. She eventually scales this up to the Titan-sized Nobilis Draconis Pendragon-class.
Animal Motifs: She really doesn't hold back with the draconic theme. Not only it's in her name, she builds Dragon Armors, her Mechanicus robes have subtle scales, and Missy comments on her "lair" being a hoard of knowledge and treasure.
Berserk Button: She went on a rampage against Chaos forces for defiling the noble draconic shape.
Break the Scientist: Sometimes, she just wants to find a nice corner and cry over the death of sanity, mainly after witnessing sorcery or absurd Orkish constructs.
The Engineer: Her main expertise lies in building weapons and armours, so she's quite crucial for Weaver's troops.
Hidden Disdain Reveal: Her inner narration shows some resentment towards her creator for installing fail safes in her in case she ever went rogue, feeling that is an insulting lack of trust.
Hide Your Otherness: As the Mechanicus is (rather justificably) paranoid about Abominable Intelligences, Dragon had to include some organic parts in her new disguise instead of building herself an entirely cybernetic body.
Hypercompetent Sidekick: Briefly for Magos Troy-Alpha-Karon, who was quite eager to appropriate her work for himself.
Morality Chain: Decides to follow Weaver after leaving Andes Primus, as she thinks the young woman could really use someone cool-headed by her so she won't immediately jump to extreme measures.
Put on a Bus: She stays on Nyx to ensure everything will keep running smoothly while Operation Caribbean is unfolding.
Reassigned to Antarctica: Briefly, as she was in the vicinity of a heretek and as a witness was sent on Andes Primus to ensure she wouldn't blab.
- Reassignment Backfire: Said reassignment causes her to cross paths with Weaver, and by riding on her coattails, Dragon's career has skyrocketed. Less than a decade after being exiled to Andes, she becomes master of her own Forge Hive, an honor most tech-priests would have to labor more than a century to even be considered for.
Robot Girl: With barely enough vat-grown flesh to pass as a cyborg. That being said she's sentient and notes that she actually has more biological parts than many of the Tech Priests.
Serious Business: Dragon takes the "noble appearance" of dragons very seriously. To the point where she calls out Mag'ladroth the Void Dragon as being unworthy of the name Dragon.
She's Not My Girlfriend: She has this in response to Taylor revenge-teasing her about spending more time working with Artisan Magos Cybersmith Lydia-Beta Rosamund than everyone else, calling her Dragon's girlfriend despite her denials. Later even Missy briefly mentions her as Dragon's "Tigrus girlfriend", much to Dragon's annoyance.
Shout-Out: Her Dragon Armors have patterns named after fictional dragons such as Saphira, Smaug or Ancalagon.

Contessa

Inquisitor Contessa

The boogeyman of Earth Bet, Contessa possesses The Eye/Path To Victory, a power that tells her the exact steps she has to take in order to carry out any objective. Recruited by Malcador the Sigillite after Earth Bet's destruction at Scion's hands, she now travels across the stars, using her power to ascertain how to allow humanity to achieve victory against its enemies.

The Bus Came Back: She returns to the Imperium through the Laphis Webgate — right in the middle of the Battle for Macragge.
Emotionless Girl: She barely emotes, even when confronted to daemons.
The Friend Nobody Likes: Even worse than Leet, courtesy of her former membership with Cauldron, the association which monumentally bungled up any chances of Earth-Bet's survival.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: She acts panicked and urges her Space Marine escort to flee after they all got teleported to an Pocket Dimension by the Simurgh, saying that it cannot be fought.
Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: She doesn't approve of Weaver's humanitarian efforts to improve Nyx's standards of living, feeling the other woman is wasting time on frivolities.
Uncertain Doom: She hasn't been seen since the Simurgh kidnapped her and brought her to its pocket dimension.

Vista

Judge Missy Byron, High Justiciar and Minister of Justice for Nyx

A Brockton Bay Ward who has the power to bend space, she found herself in an Inquisitorial fortress under control of a Lord of Change before Contessa rescued her. After the Battle of the Death Star, she joins forces with her former enemy Taylor Hebert in the struggle for humanity's survival.

Cool Sword: Get the first of the swords made from the Energy Blade STC template, codenamed lightsaber. And yes, it is an actual lightsaber; only difference is a much longer handle.
Damsel in Distress: Briefly, when Contessa has to rescue her from a Lord of Change.
Female Gaze: On Drakkar, Missy has trouble not appreciating the bare, oiled abs of the local population.
Just a Kid: Alas for Missy, even the grim-dark Imperium feels uneasy about letting her wade into combat against Orks and daemons.
Little Miss Badass: When makes her first full appearance in the story, she is in her early teens. Doesn't prevent her from using her powers to kick demonic ass during the Battle of the Death Star.
Non-Human Sidekick: after the campains at Pavia and Commoragh, Missy gets a Rashan nicknamed Teddy as an assistant.
Person of Mass Destruction: Probably one of the few people capable of competing with Taylor for the position, as evidenced by how she outright annihilates a huge fortress and the half a million soldiers within in a couple of minutes by using her Space Master power to twist a distant mountain so it crushes the fortress from above with its mountainside flank.
Puppy-Dog Eyes: gives a pair to Taylor the first time she sees Rashans.
Space Master: Her power allows her to stretch or compress space, as long as there's nothing "living" within that space when she bends it.

Clockblocker

Second Naval Secretary (Later Rogue Trader) Dennis Peters

A Brockton Bay Ward who has the power to "freeze" anything in time, he was transported to the Imperium, unofficially joining the Navy with his new friend Wolfgang Bach. In the aftermath of the Battle of the Death Star, he joins Taylor's faction as she leads the Nyx Sector towards prosperity.

Intrepid Merchant: He's interested into becoming a Rogue Trader.
It Gets Easier: He secretly hopes he will avert this trope when it comes about ordering to kill millions of people merely for having the bad luck to not being able to be saved.
Know When to Fold 'Em: As a M3 parahuman, Dennis is rather skeptic regarding the Emperor's divinity. Still, he's aware the current climate doesn't allow for public atheism so he attends mass.
Nice Guy: He willingly inflicts himself time to hang with Leet, in spite of the Tinker's grating personality.
Official Couple: With Gabriella Jordan/Tziz Jarek after Commorragh, who is now his Seneschal.
Plucky Comic Relief: Was acknowledged as the "clownish Ward", and is still rather mischievous. Following Commorragh, this aspect of him took a serious hit.
Suggestive Collision: Gabriela Jordan is thrown into him during the battle in Commorragh, causing Pierre to joke that he should wait to fraternize until after the battle, much to Gabriela's embarrassment.
That Man Is Dead: After seeing so many deaths and ravages in Commorragh, he feels "Clockblocker" is too much of a joke and asks his cadre to call him by his civilian name.
Those Two Guys: Often seen with Wolfgang Bach.

Leet

A Brockton Bay villain with the Tinker power to make anything just once (trying to make it again has a high chance of exploding violently), he was kidnapped by a group of Harlequins and deposited on the Death Star, where he lucked out and killed the Ork Warboss leading the Ork Waagh!. Currently works for Taylor, pretty much because she's the only individual willing to not kill him for screwing up (which is quite common).

Big Damn Heroes: Surprisingly, he's able of this.
- He first appears in the story when he manages to kill an Ork Warboss giving grief to Harrowmaster Jeremiah Isley's warband. Granted, he also killed half a dozen Space Marines with his grenade and barely escaped some "oops, didn't see you there" fire as a consequence.
- Played much straighter when his ship rescues the time-displaced Spirit of Eternity's crew from being burnt alive as heretics.
Butt-Monkey: Few people respect or even like him.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Taylor and Dragon suspect that his experiments have the potential to unlock at least one of the many special projects (such as non-Warp-based FTL drives) that could potentially save the Imperium.
Establishing Character Moment: In his first appearance, he manages to kill an enormous Ork Warboss with ease but his creation also accidentally kills five Space Marines. He then proceeds to prance about cheering about how great he is, while the surviving Space Marines seriously considered committing a "tragic case of friendly fire".
Everyone Has Standards: He wasted no time in calling Contessa out for Cauldron's failure to save Earth-Bet.
- He's freaked and nauseated by Iath Bloodweaver's flagship and torturous habits.
- Weaver concedes he's avoiding deriding the horrendous losses endured by the Carribbean Fleet.
The Friend Nobody Likes: Even Dragon and Missy – both very nice and patient people – cannot stand him; he just grates on their nerves too much.
Hero of Another Story: Well, "hero" might be a strong word, but he went on a mission to find the Squat worlds in the Galactic Core and offer them an alliance — while antagonizing every single government he met on his path.
It Only Works Once: The great weakness of his power. He can make literally anything once, but any attempt to replicate a previous work has a high chance of failing — often explosively. This even includes reusing parts from one invention on another, forcing him to continuously reinvent the wheel just so his inventions work at all.
Jerkass Has a Point: He declares the Drukhari completely stupid for letting their Helspiders breed out of control and then having the gall to be surprised when the beasts start snacking on them. Everyone around approves the reasoning.
Laser-Guided Karma: Ultimately, his unwilling Tech-priest assistants decide to mutiny and basically imprison him, because they've had enough of his explosive experiments.
- Taylor considers letting him stay on Nyx after hearing Borek's singing, but Leet's attitude convinces her to send him away.
Lethally Stupid: When allowed to Tinker freely, he constantly creates things that risk the death of himself and his Tech-priest assistants. And each time he's absolutely certain he had gotten it right this time.
Never My Fault: At one point when reflecting on something that's gone wrong, Leet notes, "This time no one could rightfully accuse him of screwing up. It was not his fault. Well, it was never his fault, but this time even less so." Only the first two sentences of that thought are accurate.
No Name Given: His real name is never given. It's likely that nobody is close enough to him to ask what it is.
Pet the Dog: He eventually gets the chance to revive video games as he wanted.
Press-Ganged: Borek seems intent on dragging him to bear witness to his Glorious Doom. He tries to complain, but nobody particularly cares — especially since allowing Borek to do as he pleases will essentially solve two problems at once.
"Wanted!" Poster: he and Borek get one from Xerxes Vandire following their rescue of a time-shifted Yang Wen-li and his crew.

Shadow Stalker

Callidus Assassin Elena Kerrigan, formerly known as Sophia Hess, Angel of the Shadows

A Brockton Bay Ward and Taylor's former bully, she finds herself in the Imperial world of Necromunda. A series of events causes her to join the Imperial Assassins.

Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Knowing how her past self's mistakes have now come to roost, Elena kneels to Taylor and begs for forgiveness.
Animal Jingoism: Because of her association with Frostlions, Elena gets along swimingly with direbear-riding Space Wolves. Those who ride direwolves or have them as companions, on the other hand...
Battle in the Center of the Mind: Between Sophia Hess and Elena Kerrigan. Sophia loses badly, and Elena is only called off by direct intervention of the God-Emperor.
Berserk Button: Taylor. Learning that Taylor is not only in the Imperium but one of its greatest heroes makes her flip out so hard that she manages to break through most of the brainwashing she was put through.
Can't Kill You, Still Need You: A disgusted Emperor would like to completely erase Sophia, but Elena would die without her original soul, forcing him to perform a Split-Personality Merge on her.
Cuteness Proximity: Even the merciless Imperial Assassin will find herself gushing and cooing in front of a litter of Frostlion kittens, calling them a big blue-eyed ball of white fluff.
Despair Event Horizon: The sheer amount of pain and agony from taking the Polymorphine caused Sophia to undergo a Second Trigger, which assimilated the drug and gave her exceptional transformation proficiency with it.
Everyone Has Standards: For all her proclamations of being a ruthless predator, Sophia is completely disturbed and horrified by the selection process for Eversor and Callidus assassins.
- After getting a glimpse of the truth regarding the Emperor's Ascension on the Golden Throne, Sophia fully respects the depths of His sacrifice.
- When facing off against Lorgar to delay him from reaching Guilliman's stasis field, Elena notes that even by the old standards of predator and prey that she once believed in as Sophia Hess, Lorgar is a complete and utter monster.
Fluffy Tamer: As she's fighting Chaos warbands on Fenris, she rescues a litter of Frostlion kittens. It gives her the idea to let the beasts feed on her kills, and she quickly becomes a force to be reckoned with.
Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: The Emperor isn't impressed by her claiming she's a psychopath because the Shards are driven to conflict, pointing out that her power was maybe responsible for less than a third of her crimes. What was left is all her.
Hypocrite: She believes in a form of Predator and Prey mentality, believing that those who fight back, the Predators, are strong and can do what they want to the Prey, who are those who don't fight and thus are weak. However, she's also adamant in the belief that Prey can't become Predators; how you respond to conflict first is what determines your role in her mind; furthermore, as she considers herself a Predator, she holds disdain for anything that makes her seem like a Prey, such as an opponent she can't beat. Thus, she vehemently refuses to believe that Taylor, who she criminally abused unopposed for over two years, is now not only strong, but also stronger than her.
Meaningful Rename: Giving her birth name up is the sign she was totally broken into the Apprentice her Callidus teacher wants her to be.
Racial Transformation: Her teacher forces her to abandon her birth appearance, so she's not a black teenager anymore but looks like a redhaired white girl.
Rank Up: Gets promoted between appearances in Interlude Chapters, eventually becoming a full agent of the Callidus Temple at the end of Arc 9.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Sophia gets one from Elena, who sees Sophia's going out of her way to torment the defenseless rather than facing any of the real threats in Brockton Bay to be pathetic. She then gets another from the Emperor, who lays bare her hypocrisy and stupidity before throwing her a small fraction of the pain he suffers every day.
Split-Personality Merge: The Emperor ends up merging the "Elena Kerrigan" personality produced with Callidus training with the original "Sophia" personality.
That Man Is Dead: After becoming an Apprentice of the Ninth Level, committing her first murder and changing her whole appearance. Hearing about Taylor and her exploits undoes this mentally. Occurs again after the Emperor merges the "Elena Kerrigan" personality produced with the original "Sophia" personality. This time, it sticks.
Took a Level in Badass: After Corvus Corax gives her his power over the shadows, Elena is strong enough that she can insta-kill Traitor Marines and go toe-to-toe with a reborn Malal.
Training from Hell: The Callidus Temple is not gentle with its apprentices. Tests aren't so much pass/fail as they are pass/die.
Voluntary Shapeshifting: When she starts to take polymorphine, she's capable of transforming in only seven seconds. She's actually praised for doing it much more quickly than many fully trained Callidus.

Doormaker

A member of Cauldron who has the power to open "doors" between any two points, as long as he can picture them.

Adaptational Wimp: Not by his own power, but rather due to him no longer having the parahuman Clairvoyant with him, as Clairvoyant could use his power to help Doormaker create portals between anywhere on any parallel Earth. Without him, Doormaker is much more limited.
The Ghost: He is the only parahuman who has yet to be seen.
Thinking Up Portals: His power.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Ovation 9.1 indicates he may have died after the Simurgh's kidnapping of Contessa and her coterie. Word of God is that Doormaker has died, and his soul and shard have both been claimed by the Emperor.

Spoiler Character

Malicia, the Destiny Unwritten, formerly known as Victoria Dallon

A mysterious parahuman who has become a Sorceress of Tzeentch. Her purpose is unknown, but she has been recruiting Chaos Space Marines.

Adaptational Villainy: It's safe to say that all the Character Development that made Glory Girl a better hero and person in Ward isn't going to happen here.
Arch-Enemy: Appears to be destined to become one of the Endbringers, Taylor's greatest enemies. Her being another human from Earth who has a history with Taylor gives her the potential to stand out above the others. As Glory Girl, she has further claim to this title, being one of the heroes who distrusted Taylor the most out of Black-and-White Insanity and ended up paying a horrific price for it.
Be Careful What You Wish For: Victoria was offered a deal by Tzeentch to restore her human form from the Wretch form that Amy had transformed her into, which she took — and then Tzeentch twisted the deal to turn her hair platinum and her eyes a pupil-less blue.
Face–Heel Turn: From one of Brockton Bay's heroes to a sorceress of a Chaos God.
Foil: Appears as this to Taylor –- she's sponsored by a Chaos God and sports daemonic imagery, while Taylor is patroned by the God-Emperor and is often associated with angels. With the reveal of her identity, it goes even further — Victoria used to be one of the most beloved heroes of Brockton Bay before undergoing a Face–Heel Turn, while Taylor was one of the most respected and loved villains of the same city before undergoing a Heel–Face Turn. Both have abilities that allow them to influence others, but while Taylor's is direct control and restricted to insects, Victoria's is more subtle and only works on people.
Lady of Black Magic: A sorceress of Tzeentch.
Malevolent Masked Man: She's never without a mask when she has to make public appearances.
Meaningful Name: Somewhat — Destiny Unwritten is the tagline of one of the books in the Horus Heresy (specficially, the tagline of Ruinstorm), and refers to how the plot implied that Sanguinus could have actually changed the outcome of the Heresy during his mission to Davin (not that he ultimately does it). Addtionally, Victoria becoming a Chaos Sorceress made her destiny unwritten, as she canonically would have become a better person and hero in Worm's sequel, Ward.
Mystical White Hair: Gaining Tzeentch as her patron has completely discolored her hair, its shade explicitly told to be unnatural unless you strongly bleach it.
Not in This for Your Revolution: Malicia has certain disloyal thoughts about the gods of Chaos (planning to kill her patron eventually) and claims to be motivated by a desire to kill her enemy the Simurgh and see someone from her time period "kneel before the Anathema and hear the story of our rise and fall."
Not So Stoic: The Simurgh enrages her to the point that she will throw a tantrum of apocalyptic proportions in her rooms.
Occult Blue Eyes: Following her bargain with Tzeentch, her eyes have lost their pupils and are now compared to burning blue fire.
Redemption Rejection: Weaver gives her an opportunity to break free of Tzeentch and change sides, but she turns it down. And confirms that decision upon being told that the offer will not be made again.
Screw Destiny: Possibly, when you look at her epithet.
Thinking Up Portals: Has stolen an artifact that lets her artificially force Warp tears that normally only last for less than a second to remain open for minutes, allowing her to escape the Eye of Terror.
Ungrateful Bitch: See Be Careful What You Wish For. Making people look better than they originally did, as has arguably happened in the case of Glory Girl's original appearance, even before Panacea turned her into the Wretch, is not Tzeentch's usual MO, yet Malicia is still scheming to kill her patron Chaos God. Good luck with that...
Walking Spoiler: Her true identity was a mystery until the end of the ninth arc, when she was revealed to be Victoria "Glory Girl" Dallon.
Worthy Opponent:
- If the beginning of "Monsters and Nightmares" is true, she feels Taylor is this to her.
- She becomes this to Valkia the Red Angel, formerly Lotara Sarrin, who acknowledges her as a genuine ally against Nagash and offers to either bow to Khorne or move her domain away from the Calyx Hellstars. When Malicia chooses the later, Valkia promises no one will trouble her as she does - this coming from a Nephilim Queen of War.

The Imperium

Fay

Colonel Larkine

Colonel Daviev Larkine

The Fay 20th Colonel at the beginning of the story, he is Taylor's first superior when she joins the Imperial Guard.

Everyone Has Standards: He's completely disgusted by Wuhan's aristocrats extravagantly murdering and partying the night away.
"Facing the Bullets" One-Liner: "The Emperor waits, xeno."
Forgotten Fallen Friend: Averted when Taylor immortalizes his memory by naming a template lasgun after him.
Reasonable Authority Figure: While he is a hardass, he's also competent, capable of making good choices and does his best for the men and women he leads.
Taking You with Me: What he does with six Aeldari (one of them a High Farseer) and a grenade after he was deathly injured by them.

Governor Dalten

Governor Ilvyna Dalten

A major and company commander in the Fay 20th at the beginning of the story, she ends up unofficially recruiting Taylor into the Imperial Guard by giving her a weapon in the First Battle of Ramev's Pass.

Action Girl: Before becoming a Governor, she was a Major in the 20th Fay.
Babies Ever After: In the five-years timeskip spent preparing Operation Caribbean, she gives birth to a little girl named Anne, and asks Weaver to become her godmother.
Does Not Like Men: Apparently, she was disgusted from the male persuasion due to events in her childhood.
Famous Ancestor: A descendent of her named Taylor Dalten pens a historical analysis regarding the 20th Fay.
Rags to Riches: From a Major to a Planetary Governor, there's quite the gap. Downplayed, though, as she belongs to a noble family.
Royals Who Actually Do Something: She belongs to a noble Fay family, and is a kickass member of the Imperial Guard.

Commissar Zuhev

Lord Commissar Zuhev

The Fay 20th Commissar at the beginning of the story, he is a no-nonsense political officer who makes sure to keep morale high among the men. Initially butting heads with Taylor, he eventually accepts her as a fellow officer.

Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Originally hated by the 20th for being the archetypal You Have Failed Me-happy Commissar, he eventually earns his men's respect once it is clear that he isn't willing to order the men at gunpoint into any fight he isn't willing to charge into himself — and kick ass while doing so.
Badass Normal: He went against a Traitor Space Marine Champion of Khorne with nothing but his chainsword. He won.
Burn the Witch!: His first reaction when Taylor first displays her parahuman powers is insisting she has to be tested for Chaos taint. However, he relents when it's proved she's not using sorcery.
The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much: He declares Warhost-Priest Byukur's death a tragic cardiac arrest in spite of just watching Taylor rip his throat with her razorbeetle, on Zuhev's order, no less.
Drill Sergeant Nasty: He's put in charge of ensuring that the troops training for Operation Caribbean are in shape and prepared for the fight.
Fire-Forged Friends: His relationship with Taylor starts very coldly as he suspects her of heresy and possible Chaos taint, while she's appalled by his casual murdering of the troops and his fanatical devotion to the fascist Imperium. However, Zuhev comes to trust Weaver as a commander and a soldier bent on protecting mankind from xenos and horrors in the Warp, while Taylor grows to understand Zuhev's handling of potential risks to the troops and appreciate his genuine valour.
Honest Advisor: He won't sugarcoat the situation nor the measures necessary in the aftermath, even when Taylor doesn't like it.
The Political Officer: Taylor first mistrusts him because of this.
Red Baron: He's nicknamed "Weaver's Shadow".
The Stoic: When he's not fighting, he barely emotes.

Wuhan

Governor Cao

Governor Hongfeng Cao

Decadent Court: He has one of these with even his children killing one another to jockey for position. All of Fay's military staff is disgusted by what they see of it.
Fat Bastard: He's just as fat as he's high, and he's as corrupt as you can get without dipping into Chaos worship.
Karmic Death: He really enjoys his debauchery and has all but given his children permission to kill one another to become heir. As such it's rather fitting for him to be messily killed when the orgy he's attending is attacked by a group of Slaaneshi cultists led by one of his sons.
The Napoleon: He reaches barely a hundred sixty centimeters and is in charge of Hive Cao.
Parental Neglect: When Cao became Governor his children quickly began assassinating one another to become his sole heir. Cao himself has all but given permission by ignoring their behavior.
Really Gets Around: He sired at least fifteen children.
Sibling Yin-Yang: His brother and predecessor wasn't a great leader or person, but he listened to his advisors, was less hedonistic (or at least hid it well), bothered to serve in the military (albeit largely in a Soldiers at the Rear way) and was a bit of a Papa Wolf (giving into blackmail to try and save the life of his kidnapped daughter). Hongfeng in contrast ignores his advisors, is openly slovenly and hedonistic, has probably never seen the inside of a military academy and couldn't care less about his kids.

Wei Cao

Seneschal Consort Wei Cao, Regina of Wuhan

The sixth child of the Governor of Wuhan, she initially met Taylor to present her an opportunity to ally with her family, only to decide instead to join the Imperial Guard when she realized staying at home would put her at risk. She eventually becomes Taylor's long-term lover.

Awesome Moment of Crowning: is crowned Regina (Planetary Governor) of Wuhan by Taylor herself in Ovation 9-3.
Badass Bureaucrat: Downplayed; she did follow the Imperial Guard training, but she's more useful when placed among Taylor's administratic staff.
Becoming the Mask: Wei initially pursued Taylor to escape Wuhan but over time she genuinely fell in love.
Cain and Abel: A big part of her fleeing Wuhan was her two elder brothers and her eldest sister trying to assassinate her because of the succession to Governorship.
Closet Key: To Weaver, who gradually realized she may not be completely straight after all.
Curtains Match the Windows: When the blue dye fades, her hair is noted to be the same obsidian shade as her eyes.
Defector from Decadence: Actually, she's a Refugee from Decadence. Wei quickly understood she wouldn't survive long in Wuhan's Decadent Court and enlisted in the Imperial Guard as she felt she had better chances of survival against xenos and heretics.
Dogged Nice Guy: Taylor initially turned down Wei's advances but she persisted, gradually winning Taylor over while also genuinely falling in love herself.
Female Gaze: Why, she is merely adjusting her uniform. The fact that she shows Taylor a view of her excellent cleavage is completely coincidental.
Hot Consort: Taylor and she are pretty much married. Then they finally get married in Ovation 9.4.
Last of His Kind: Appears to have become the last living child of Hongfeng Cao (although the fact that Dragon and Missy don't automatically imply that she'll succeed him could mean one or two others survived).
Lipstick Lesbian: She briefly mourns the impossibility to take her stylist with her and enjoying warm baths.
Ms. Fanservice: Wei Cao is this — Vista actually refers to her as "supermodel sergeant" — and has no problem in showing off for Taylor.
Mundane Utility: She finds several ideas for economic applications of Weaver's insect-control such as farming crustaceans or selling high-quality silk for luxury goods.
Royal Harem: She showed interest in making Alyena Sinblade the first of her and Taylor's seraglio after her trial, though Taylor voices her distaste for harems.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Decided to leave Wuhan on the grounds that joining the Imperial Guard had better chances of survival.
True Blue Femininity: The Cao family is associated with the azure shade, and Wei is very girly indeed.
The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter: Governor Hongfeng Cao is bluntly called an obese midget, while Wei is repeatedly praised as a supermodel.

Nyx

Wolfgang Bach

First Naval Secretary (Later Rogue Trader) Wolfgang Bach

A student from an Imperial Naval Academy, he decided to change course when he realized the aristocratic officer corps would put him aside in spite of his excellent aptitude due to his commoner background. This leads him to encounter Dennis "Clockblocker" Peters and, eventually, Taylor Hebert, whom he helps as a naval expert.

Ace Pilot: During the Battle of the Death Star, he managed to shoot down at least fourteen Ork fighters... while piloting a bomber. With the weapons, that is. His kill count triples if one counts the Orks he tricked into crashing into things by outflying them. The main thing keeping his count from being even higher was that he ran out of ammunition.
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: He's blond and a very Nice Guy.
Intrepid Merchant: He aims to obtain a Rogue Trader Warrant. Taylor snatches him into her staff with the promise of one.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: A victim of this — he graduated third out of a class of thousands, but since he was the son of a common-born Guard officer rather than being from a noble family or a Naval dynasty, he was refused a good post.
Those Two Guys: Often seen with Clockblocker.
Twin Threesome Fantasy: He mentions he avenged himself from being kicked out of his dream career out of bigotry by sleeping with the twin daughters of a Lord Admiral. They later pursue him back when he becomes a Rogue Trader, apparently bent on a more lasting relationship.

Cyrene Versailles

Lady Architect Cyrene Valantion, the Blessed Lady

Complete Immortality: Weaver and Ancient Pierre comment on the fact she still looks the same than four millenia before, in spite of having being briefly dead and stuck in the Warp for a year.
Didn't See That Coming: She was utterly confident no one would identify her as a former Confessor to the Word Bearers, only for Weaver to inform her that Venerable Ancient Dreadnought Pierre had fought in the Heresy and lived long enough to find his way to Nyx.
Meaningful Rename: Her alias Versailles is referring one of the most famous French castles.
Obfuscating Disability: She pretends to be blind in her current civilian identity.

Freya Brasidas

Commander Freya Brasidas

Ace Pilot: She graduated first rank of her class in the Aeronautica Academy and scored the most kills with her fighter during the Battle of Commorragh — 372.
Belligerent Sexual Tension: With her Sitcom Arch-Nemesis Kurt Nils. They eventually solve this via Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex, and get married.
Impoverished Patrician: Zig-zagged. She personally is doing quite well thanks to having won lands, title and a junior officer's share of an astronomically huge pool of prize money from Operation Caribbean. Her family, on the other hand, is on the decline, due to a combination of squandering money in futile efforts to oppose the reforms of Lady Weaver and members of the family getting arrested for violating laws passed as part of those reforms.
Overly Narrow Superlative: Her father prides himself in being the fourth-ranked duke on Nyx. Freya internally notes that after Weaver's crackdowns on corruption in the nobility, there are only four ducal houses left on Nyx.
Politically Incorrect Hero: Being the daughter of a duke in the the traditionally aristocratic Imperial Navy, it's not surprising that she holds fairly classist views and dislikes how Weaver's reforms in the military give more equal treatment to commoners. She eventually grows out of this a little, but still occasionally grumbles about being forced to accept "plebians" in her squadron.
Rank Up: She starts out as an ensign in the story before being promoted through the various ranks of lieutenant, and then eventually becoming the commander of her own squadron.
Rejecting the Inheritance: When her father tries to force her to resign her commission by threatening to disinherit her, Freya (having already been awarded the title of Baroness due to her role in the Battle of Commorragh) rejects her inheritance and leaves him alongside her sister.
Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: With Kurt Nils. Given Kurt's background as a member of the working class whose piloting rivals her own, Freya naturally doesn't get along with him and sees him as the "symbol of everything wrong with the new order". The two regularly trade insults and their animosity becomes so well-known that some of Freya's fellow pilots even jokingly suggest that their rivalry is a result of Belligerent Sexual Tension. They turn out to be right, as not only do they do the deed, they actually get married.

The Inquisition

Odysseus Tor

Lord Inquisitor Odysseus Tor

Burn the Witch!: He's introduced right as he finishes purging Hive Menelaus from Chaos influences.
Call-Forward: He's named Tor, and he's involved into a Vandire's fall. Of course, the Reign of Blood is shaping up to be a mite different (being called the Reign of Terror, for once), so it remains to see if their descendants (or their families', given Nostradamus' grave case of death) will repeat history.
Kingmaker Scenario: He's the one who first suggests Taylor Hebert should vie for Nyx's Governorship.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: His purge of the Nyxian nobility accidentally gave Nostradamus Vandire the opening for trying to gain control of the Nyx sector. Not that his efforts lasted very long, or enjoyed much success in the story itself, although in the old timeline, it may have paved the way for the descendants that Vandire never had time to sire here to be influential enough to launch the Age of Apostasy.
Reasonable Authority Figure: For an Inquisitor, he is quite the reasonable man.

Rafaela Harper

Lady Inquisitor Rafaela Harper

It Has Been an Honour: Her last words to Weaver, after the Living Saint thanks her for her service to the Imperium.
Killed Off for Real: Finally dies from her wounds on Mandragora, after witnessing Weaver turn several Canoptek Scarab swarms against the Necrons.
Those Two Guys: Several of her interventions see her assisting Odysseus Tor.

The Adeptus Mechanicus

Desmerius Lankovar

Magos Explorator/Archmagos Desmerius Lankovar

A Magos of the Adeptus Mechanicus who explores the galaxy in search of the Standard Template Constructs, devices containing details of the technology used by humanity in the Dark Age of Technology. Taylor meets him in the aftermath of the Battles of Ramev Pass. Intrigued with Taylor and her powers, he uses his influence to insert Taylor as the Fay 20th's Major, and takes them to their different tasks, which proves very rewarding.

Fantastic Racism: Downplayed, as his Forgeworld occasionally deals with minor Craftworlds. What he can't stand are Aeldari going out of their ways to assault humans.
Karmic Jackpot: He decided to help Taylor to land on her feet, as he thought she might help his Quest for Knowledge to progress. The young woman repays him by the discovery of a STC Database and engineering the kickstart of a highly prosperous economy where he has great influence.
Mad Scientist: Guy sees no problems in vivisecting orks or trying to clone parahumans.
My God, What Have I Done?: Subverted. Sometimes he wonders if he did the right thing helping Taylor in the first time... but then remembers everything Taylor has done for the Mechanicus and the Imperium and casts those doubts away.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: He completely loses composure when informed that Weaver found a Standard Template Construct Database.
Secret-Keeper: He helped Gavreel Forcas forge another identity in order to save him from the Dark Angels Successor Chapters, who would hunt and kill him.

Archmagos Cawl

Archmagos Dominus Belisarius Cawl

The most senior (in both rank and years of experience) Tech-Priest in the galaxy short of the Fabricator-General. While everyone is grudgingly forced to respect his great skill and experience, his tendency to delve into radical innovations make him highly disliked outside his own followers. He enters the story indirectly after Taylor becomes Governor of Nyx as the designer of her flagship, the HMHMS Enterprise, and directly during the Battle of Commorragh in an effort to ingratiate himself to her to get access to her copy of the Athena Archive.

Badass Bookworm: He's completely obsessed by his Quest for Knowledge, but if he feels he needs to bust the artillery and other mass-destruction weapons, be assured he will do it.
Big Damn Heroes: Along with the Salamanders, he rushes to Commorragh with sorely-needed firepower.
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Flagrantly, unrepentantly eccentric and radical. Also incredibly good at what he does, being perhaps the most skilled Tech-Priest in the galaxy in existence.
Everyone Has Standards: On the other side of the stick — all the other Techpriests think he's just too Omnimessiah-damned bonkers, be it in the labs or on the battlefield.
Gravity Master: Everyone is in sheer shock and disbelief when he, using a highly-advanced gravitic tunnel based on technology from the War of the Beast, teleports one of the Nyx System's moons, using the gravitic tunnel to propel the moon from one end of the system to the other in a handful of seconds. Not only that, but he did so with such precision and timing that, despite the space being filled with allied ships now dealing with having a moon appear out of nowhere, and the potential environment damage and gravitic alterations that one planet losing a moon and another gaining another would cause, nothing was destroyed beyond some abandoned mines. Sure, Taylor now has a place within her range to keep her Catachan ants and to farm Bacta, but needless to say, she is not amused.
- He repeats this feat when he teleports T'au from Macragge to a star in the Nyx Sector.
Pro-Human Transhuman: In his own words, that the flesh is weak means that it must be protected. After all, this weakness gave humanity its drive to become better and improve itself.
Unsatisfiable Customer: The ship that would become Taylor's "Enterprise"? The huge one, with the strongest Gellar Fields ever recorded and enough firepower to fight an entire fleet on its own? It was something that he had commissioned, then sold back to the shipyard because it didn't fit his standards.
What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: For the negotiations for the second group of STC templates recovered from Commorragh, out of all them, including the templates for things like a Fusion Reactor, an Orbital Space Elevator, and Energy Blades, Cawl enthusiastically wanted the template to create and cultivate beer. The other tech-priests were so befuddled that they let him have it without much of a fight, reasoning that it would be a massive undertaking to find a way to do tech-heresy with alcohol of all things. The author has mentioned that it will have importance in the next story arc and beyond. While it might not be related, keep in mind that there's now a DUARDIN in Taylor's group, and Duardins are 40k's expies of Dwarves, and well, Dwarves and beer?

The Adeptus Astartes

Gavreel Forcas

Sergeant Gavreel Forcas, Dark Angel Legionnaire (Officially listed as a Dark Warden)

A Dark Angel Space Marine, he is a Fallen Dark Angel — those Dark Angels who rebelled during the Horus Heresy — who did not know about his superiors' treason. Managing to escape Caliban, he eventually found his way to Wuhan, where he encountered Taylor as she responded to the mysterious threat that had appeared in one of its hives. After this, he swore an oath to become Taylor's personal protector.

Bodyguarding a Badass: Physically, the fully trained Astartes is much more of a threat than the slim young woman he's protecting. Once she starts using her insects and Saintly powers, however, Gavreel quickly becomes obsolete.
But Not Too Evil: He is technically a Fallen Dark Angel. However, he was a low ranked NCO during the Heresy who had no knowledge of his superior's treason until the Loyalist Dark Angels attacked to retake Caliban. He genuinely was Just Following Orders, as he honestly believed they were legal orders from his lawfully appointed officers. This saves him when the Dark Angels learn about him. Between his efforts to redeem himself, his ties with Weaver, and his low rank on their to-hunt list, they decide to leave him be, at least for the time being.
Drill Sergeant Nasty: For the Imperial Guard. He relishes his new role, finding it very fun.
Fish out of Temporal Water: Just like Weaver, he came from the past. More precisely, Gavreel originates from the tail-end of the Heresy and is rather discomfitted to discover how low the Imperium has fallen in four millennia.
Internal Reveal: Taylor, with his approval, tells the Dawnbreaker Guard his true identity to avoid loyalty issues following Cypher's theft.
Lady and Knight: Lankovar suggested him to officially enter into Weaver's service as her personal protector, and he took the offer.
Sole Survivor: Because of the Dark Angels' obsessive hunt for the Fallen (and their tendency to purge all witnesses who learn of their existence), Lankovar arranges for all evidence of Gavreel being a Dark Angel to be destroyed, and officially gets him listed as a remnant of the Dark Wardens, a Dark Angels Successor Chapter that had been officially declared extinct a few centuries before. It doesn't work — since the Unforgiven know the names of most of the Fallen, a report on his existence and location gets sent to the Rock shortly after a Dark Angels Successor detached to the Deathwatch meets him. Fortunately, the Dark Angels are too busy preparing for an impending Black Crusade to travel halfway across the galaxy to confront him at the time.
Stop Worshipping Me: Notably uncomfortable with how Imperial citizens treat him as a holy warrior or angel.

Blood Angels

The descendants of the Ninth Legion and its Primarch, Sanguinius. When Taylor manages, through her actions, to establish a barrier that protects them from the Black Rage (the uncontrollable rage they feel as they suffer the psychic backlash of their Primarch's death), they promise their support to Taylor.

Character Witness: The Brothers of the Red decided to plead leniency for Harrowmaster Jeremiah Isley's warband as the Alpha Legionnaires fought at their side on the Death Star.
Heroes Gone Fishing: They're encouraged to have hobbies from the non-martial variety. It includes sculpture, gardening, painting, even jewelry-making.
I Owe You My Life: By becoming their Barrier Maiden against the Black Rage, Weaver singlehandedly rescued their whole Legion from Ka'Bandha and is still protecting their souls.
Kneel Before Frodo: After Taylor finally awakes from the healing she needed after the Battle of the Death Star, they bow to her to show how grateful they are for her actions.
Our Angels Are Different: They are often associated with angelic imagery, although they also have a touch of vampire-like characteristics due to their Red Thirst and Black Rage.
Praetorian Guard: Every Chapter of the Blood offers a warrior to serve in the newly created Dawnbreaker Guard, in order to defend their Barrier Maiden.

Heracles Wardens

A former Alpha Legion warband who has been fighting for humanity, they encounter Taylor when they save her life and that of her men during the Battle of the Death Star. They eventually "rebrand" themselves as a new Space Marine Chapter that establishes itself on Nyx, and act as Taylor's go-to infiltrators and saboteurs.

Big Damn Heroes: For the exhausted human fighters on the Death Star, seeing their Chapter landing was this.
Meaningful Rename: The demigod Heracles had to undertake his legendary Twelve Labours as penance for his crimes. The Heracles Wardens are explicitely on probation.
Stealth Expert: As it's explicitly the Alpha Legion's hat, Weaver outright uses them as saboteurs.
Takes One to Kill One: Downplayed, but after officially joining the Imperium, they proceed to teach ways to identify and neutralize infiltrated agents. First Harrowmaster declares Nyx to be avoided at all costs due to this, and one Heracles Warden managed to kill a Callidus Apprentice.
That Man Is Dead: Officially, the Loyalist Alpha Legionnaires commanded by Harrowmaster Jeremiah Isley were wiped by an Imperial tribunal.
Token Good Teammate: From the imperial viewpoint, Harrowmaster Jeremiah Isley's warband was this, as they openly alignated themselves with mankind instead of doing their own thing or defecting to Chaos.

Chapter Master Jeremiah Isley, formerly Harrowmaster

The Harrowmaster of the Alpha Legion warband that later becomes the Heracles Wardens, he fights to genuinely aid humanity against Chaos and other enemies.

Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: He halfheartedly attempts to rein in Ancient Pierre's enthusiasm and antics. His success is rather mitigated, as Pierre doesn't even bother listening.
My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Even the other Harrowmasters are floored by his decision to defect for the Imperium. Renegade Alpha Legionnaires tend to be seduced by Chaos, after all.
Only Sane Man: After seeing the Alpha Legion progressively sinking into crazier and more absurd schemes, Jeremiah decided to fuck off with his men and try to genuinely help someone for once.

Venerable Ancient Dreadnought Pierre

A Heracles Wardens' Dreadnought whose main characteristics are being strong, powerful and a Large Ham.

Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: When faced with the Greater Daemon possessing Fulgrim's corpse, Pierre decides to insult the abomination's haircut. Seriously.
Irony: The very loud, very big, and very boisterous Pierre belongs to a Legion that specializes in stealth and infiltration. That said, he can be surprisingly sneaky when he wants to be.
Large Ham: Pierre really enjoys making a spectacle of himself. Which is not very stealthy of him, but who's gonna think a multi-ton Dreadnought is discreet, anyway?
No Indoor Voice: It contributes to his Large Ham tendences.
One-Man Army: Once a battle is over, it isn't too uncommon to find him lounging over a literal pile of corpses.
Sitcom Archnemesis: Whatever he did to Rylanor, it made the other Dreadnought wrestle him before dumping red paint all over his chassis. In public.
Spanner in the Works: Unfortunately for Cyrene Versailles, this Astartes survived to the Heresy and met her brand-new employer to inform Weaver of Cyrene's apparent immortality.
Stealthy Colossus: A Dreadnought can stand around 4 meters tall and weigh more than 10 tons. The fact that Pierre can still avoid notice when he wants to, proves he's probably the stealthiest member of his Chapter.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Played for Laughs, but no Heracles Warden is volunteering for being interred within a Dreadnought because they fear developping the same quirks as Pierre.

Aeonid Thiel

Aeonid Thiel, Ultramarine

A Space Marine of the Thirteenth Legion who volunteered to seek a cure for the poison afflicting Primarch Roboute Guilliman. An encounter with a group of Harlequins leads him to Commorragh, where he links up with Group Army Caribbean when they raid the Dark City.

Enraged by Idiocy: Infiltrating and sabotaging Commorragh is just so easy that he outright despairs in the face of the Drukhari's utter mismanagement.
Fear Is the Appropriate Response: Seeing Fulgrim in all his glory as a Daemon Prince has him understandably reflect on how Space Marines have inherent Nerves of Steel rather than the actual inability to feel nervous, as he is terrified.
Find the Cure!: He spent several millennia exploring the Webway in the search of a treatment for his barely-living Primarch. A Harlequin directs him towards Commorragh by dangling the hope of a solution in front of him.
Fish out of Temporal Water: After thousands of years in the Webway, he finds that the Macragge of the present day is nothing like the Macragge he left behind.
I Gave My Word: He politely refuses an invitation to join the Dawnbreaker Guard as he already pledged himself to Guilliman, and feels it would be unfair to let Weaver have a bodyguard whose first loyalty will never go to her.
Living Legend: A survivor of the Heresy, who has been lost in the Webway for around four thousand years. Jeremiah Isley's viewpoint holds quite the awe for him.
Never Accepted in His Hometown: One of the more innovative Astartes of his day, from back when the Ultramarines knew that the Codex Astartes was a living document that would need to be continually revised to account for situations where existing doctrine either doesn't cover the current situation, or is being actively used against them. This does not make him popular among the hyper-conservative Ultramarines of the 35th Millennium, who treat the Codex as holy writ.
Oh, Crap!: Yup, even he can know fear when confronted with faux-Fulgrim.
Only Sane Man: He apparently believes he's this compared to the Crusade-obsessed Black Templars, pyromaniac Salamanders, and disorganized Blood Angels. It's rather difficult to disagree.
Properly Paranoid: He's constantly looking for ambushes and backstabbings as he's wandering the Webway. It pays off when the Harlequins guiding him through Commorragh attack him.
Rank Up: After the Battle of Macragge, Roboute Guilliman promotes him to Chapter Master of the Ultramarines.
Reassigned to Antarctica: Normally, command of the 8th Company (or, indeed, any company) of the Ultramarines would be a great honor. However, 8th Company is then assigned to a long posting on the Paradise World of Laphis, which has no need for an Astartes garrison.
- Reassignment Backfire: After the 5th Black Crusade comes to Macragge, and Laphis turns out to have a Webway Gate that is the heretics' only safe way out of the system, Aeonid has a chance to prove that his unorthodox methods have value, as he takes charge of its defense.

Salamanders

The descendants of the Eighteenth Legion and its Primarch, Vulkan. The most compassionate of all Space Marines, they seek their Primarch's Nine Artifacts, believing they are the key to Vulkan's return, leading to them entering the story after Group Army Caribbean finds two of them.

Badass in Distress: A company of them has been captured by Drukhari and has to be rescued in Extermination 8.1.
Bear Hug: They tend to forgot how easily normal people can bruise under their manifestations of gratitude and enthusiasm.
Beware the Nice Ones: Especially when "lava", "magma", and "fire" are involved.
The Cavalry: They come racing to help Taylor during the Battle of Commorragh.
Fantastic Racism: They utterly loathe the Dark Eldar for their unceasing raids on their homeworld Nocturne, and so gleefully jump on the opportunity to commit a xenocide against them at Commorragh.
Gotta Catch Them All: They believe the scattered Nine Artifacts of Vulkan are key to finding their Primarch, so they immediately drop everything and run to Pavia when they're informed the Caribbean Fleet has found two of them.
Pyromaniac: They enjoy everything fire, lava, and magma a bit too much, and enjoy setting heretics, xenos, and traitors on fire even more – preferably alive.

Rylanor

Venerable Ancient Dreadnought Rylanor, Master of Rites of the Third Legion

A Dreadnaught of the Third Legion who is quite possibly the only surviving Loyalist member of the original Emperor's Children left in the galaxy. Found by a Mechanicus expedition to Istvaan after the Warp Storm isolating it disperses as a side-effect of Operation Caribbean, he is named the Master of the first Chapter to be created from the Third Legion geneseed recovered from Pavia, the White Thunderbolts, as an experiment to see if Fulgrim's line can be redeemed after the maiming of the Naga and death of Slaanesh.

And This Is for...: When he finally kills Lucius, he does it for those Lucius betrayed in Istvaan III.
Do Not Call Me Sir: He's quite unhappy when called "Venerable Ancient", as it reminds him of being stuck in a hole while the Imperium's enemies were ravaging the galaxy for several millennia.
Heroic Willpower: He stayed awake and aware for millennia, crippled and guarding a virus bomb, waiting for an opportunity to be found by the Imperium or to destroy traitors, even though his last human contact was all of his beliefs being shattered and his brothers betraying each other, and he had no guarantee that reinforcments were ever going to come find him. Even Weaver is awed by his mental fortitude and believes she would have only been able to last a few days, compared to Rylanor's millenia.
Living Relic: From the Heresy.
No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction: Rylanor reminisces how, most of times, Fulgrim's sheer charisma chewed the job for his Legion, and Chemos itself was a very pleasant place to be. He picks a Death World as the base for his new Chapter, specifically so they have a genuine threat to fight against.
The Perfectionist: Deliberately averted. Rylanor points to his Legion's obsession with perfection as the main cause of its downfall, the other being a lack of true brotherhood. He builds the White Thunderbolts with the explicit goal of avoiding that mistake.
Sanity Strengthening: Bacta injections definitely helped him to recover from the four millennia he didn't sleep.
Sitcom Archnemesis: Apparently nurses a grudge against Pierre from the Heracles Wardens, to the point he covered the other Dreadnought with red paint.
Spared by the Adaptation: He's discovered much earlier than in canon and given treatment for starting to Go Mad from the Isolation, instead of slowly declining until he committed suicide.
True Companions: His plans for the White Thunderbolts and, according to him, something the Emperor's Children actually lacked. He picks Goa as a homebase, specifically to help foster these bonds.
Undying Loyalty: His first words after identifying his rescuers as belonging to the Imperium? Asking to serve the Emperor again.

Spoiler Character

Rogal Dorn, Praetorian of Terra, Primarch of the Imperial Fists, 7th Legion of the Space Marines

The Primarch of the Imperial Fists, he went missing during the 31st millenium while on a mission to kill Omegon: the only thing that was recovered was one of his hands. Unknown to the Imperium, he has been imprisoned in Commorragh's greatest prison ever since, but the Raid on Commorragh gives him the chance to escape.

A Father to His Men: He was this while active, and four millenia have not taken that from him.
An Arm and a Leg: While she slaughtered the crew of his ship, Lelith only cut off Rogal's hand and left him to be captured by other Dark Eldar.
Awesomeness Is a Force: Dorn's charisma is such it verges into You Cannot Grasp the True Form and human soldiers instinctively kneeling when he's around.
Badass in Distress: He was imprisoned for four millenia in one of Commorragh's worst prisons, but that does not prevent him from rescuing himself the first chance he has.
Crippling Overspecialization: If you need a peerless warrior and strategist, he's your man. But Dorn is the first to acknowledge he's not an administrator, and constantly needed Malcador or Roboute's help for dealing with logistics.
Disappointed in You: Dorn is obviously dismayed to see the Black Templars and the Imperium as a whole devolved into fanaticism and obscurantism, quietly remembering how he and his siblings wanted to herald an age of reason and progress.
Enemy Mine: Downplayed. He most certainly does NOT form a formal alliance with any force of Chaos at any point when working to ruin the King in Yellow's plans. However, when he speaks the King in Yellow's true name in front of all the forces of Chaos to render him vulnerable and destroy his plans to ascend to Master of Eternity, he gives the Ruinous Powers all the opening they need to unleash their full vengeance upon the Eleventh Primarch and is more than willing to let them unleash havoc on his brother afterwards.
Handicapped Badass: He lost one hand in the 31st Millenium. Four thousand years later, he's still one of the greatest warriors in the galaxy.
Heroic Willpower: Four millenia in the supermax Commorragh prison, and he's still raring to defend the Imperium and destroy daemons.
He's Back!: He's the first Primarch to be seen alive since Vulkan's brief return during the War of the Beast.
I Choose to Stay: He decides not to return to the Imperium yet, because he wants to find his brother Jaghatai and bring him back as well.
I Will Find You: The reason why he fell from the maps was the fact he was hunting for Omegon, one of the traitor Primarchs. Following his long imprisonment in Commorragh, he's more intend on finding Jaghatai Khan who was lost in the Webway.
Secret-Keeper: As the Praetorian, he was made aware of many of his father's secrets, in order to know what he had to protect him from. Such as the Eleventh's true name, which he uses to render him vulnerable.
Shell-Shocked Veteran: Suffering a complete Curb-Stomp Battle at the hands of the Queen of Blades still disturbs him.
So Proud of You: While he does not outright say it, he clearly likes Taylor, tells her that Sanguinius would have loved to have her among his ranks and indicates to all the Imperial Fists present that Taylor speaks for him while he's away.
Spanner in the Works: Ultimately proves to be this for the King in Yellow. He is the only individual who knows the King's true name, Nagash...and once he utters it in front of him and gives him a Name once more, he single-handedly demolishes the King in Yellow's plans to become the Master of Eternity and gives the Ruinous Powers all the opening they need to unleash their full vengeance upon him.
Undying Loyalty: Even after being freed from Commorragh's prison and offered the opportunity to come back to Terra, Dorn insists to stay in the Webway and look for the Khan, just because Jaghatai is his brother and tried to rescue him several times.
You Cannot Grasp the True Form: Downplayed — Dorn definitely is human-shaped, but his sheer presence is too much for mundane people to handle, leaving their minds to interpret his voice differently.
The Worf Effect: He appears to prove how insanely powerful Lelith Hesperax is.

Spoiler Character 2

Hanzo from the Hattori clan, Fleet Admiral of the Tsunami Sabres, 2nd Legion of the Space Marines

The lost Second Primarch, who tried to lead an assault against the Ymga Monolith. It went... nightmarishly bad.

And I Must Scream: After losing his entire Legion to the Ymga Monolith, he was Possessed by a Shard of Iash'uddra that constantly taunted him with his failure and gloated no one would ever come to rescue him. It lasted several millenia, until Weaver launched Operation Stalingrad.
Demonic Possession: Iash'uddra managed to hijack his body in spite of his natural Anti-Magic constitution. It causes his demise when he's finally exorcised after several millennia spent in this state.
Father Neptune: A very popular nickname for his Legion was the Tsunami Sabres, he introduces himself as a Fleet Admiral, his armour is dark blue with white and green stripes (sea colours), and his voice is compared to the ocean finally appeased after a raging storm.
I Die Free: Even if Weaver is ultimately unable to save his life, he's content to not be Possessed anymore in his last moments.
The Lost Lenore: After he fell prey to the Ymga Monolith, Perturabo never was the same anymore. Magnus also is shown to be deeply affected by his loss, and it's implied that Hanzo being an Unperson didn't help with the mourning.
Mugging the Monster: He and his Legion believed they could invade and destroy the Throne of Oblivion, only for the Necron monolith to utterly butcher them instead.
Named After Somebody Famous: Hattori Hanzō was one of the greatest ninjas in Japanese history. According to myth, he died after being lured into a naval battle and his ship burned down.
Sea Dog Beard: His beard is explicitely described as the kind sailors would grow. Might overlap with Manly Facial Hair, since he was a demigod son of the Emperor.
Sorry That I'm Dying: Uses his last breath to beg Weaver to tell the Emperor he's sorry.
Unperson: Losing the whole Second Legion was such a traumatic event for the fledgling Imperium that the Emperor erased all records about them, in spite of not being very happy to do so. The only real evidence that he and his Legion existed in the public domain is the fact that there was once a 1st and 3rd Legions, so logically a 2nd existed at some point. However, now that the Ymga Monolith has been destroyed, Hanzo and his sons might get restored to history.
Warrior Poet: According Magnus, Hanzo collected poetry books. He also hailed from a feudal militaristic world and was tasked with leading the Second Legion as their Admiral.

Spoiler Character 3

Corvus Corax, The Ravenlord, Primarch of the Raven Guard, 19th Legion of the Space Marines

After the Horus Heresy, Corvus left his Legion's homeworld and the Imperium, vanishing into the Eye of Terror. Some say he left in shame, and some say in penance, over the acts of desperation he'd resorted to during the Heresy. He has spent millennia stalking his fallen brothers and follows them back into the Materium during the Fifth Black Crusade.

Brought Down to Badass: Surrenders his shadow powers to Elena Kerrigan to prevent Malal from stealing them. This reduces him to just being a Primarch, one of the mightiest heroes that humanity has ever known.
Dark Is Not Evil: A shadowy, trollish Terror Hero, but honestly rather nice even compared to other loyalists.
Decapitation Strike: Both literally and figuratively. While he does decapitate enemies on several occasions, he also kills off several Dark Apostles of the Word Bearers, as well as the staff of another.
Indy Ploy: Corvus's plans fell apart when the Crusade reached Fenris and he's been improvising since then.
Off with His Head!: On several occasions, he literally decapitates enemies before they even realize he's there... or that they've died.
Shut Up, Hannibal!: Just like the Emperor, Corvus get to rebut in a chapter foreword, in his case telling Lorgar that no, he isn't all that, he's just a self-serving fool, a coward and a traitor, and when the Fifth Crusade fails, everyone will remember that it was Lorgar's fault.
Stealth Expert: In fact, THE Stealth Expert of the Empire. Among other feats, he kills everyone on the bridge of Dark Apostle Paristur's battleship, except him, and then leaves a raven's feather on Paristur's seat, without ever being seen. He also sneaks up on a Skaven Deathmistress of Clan Eshin, their ultimate assassins.
Troll: He allows himself to play some jokes on his victims when he's sure he's got them dead to rights, like telling a Chaos Lord to cut the red wire in a bomb he just discovered...and all wires are red.

Spoiler Character 4

Leman Russ, The Lord of Winter and Ruin, The Wolf King of Fenris, Primarch of the Space Wolves, 6th Legion of the Space Marines

After the Horus Heresy, he was ashamed at failing to kill Horus and the Emperor's placement on the Golden Throne. He left searching for The World Tree Yggdrassil to find a fruit said to cure any injury in order to heal the Emperor. He returns to Fenris during the Fifth Black Crusade to protect his Legion when they are on the verge of defeat.

Cain and Abel: His hatred for his treacherous brother Magnus is the stuff of legends. However, it's hinted to be more complicated than pure loathing, since Leman feels relief when Magnus loses his psyker powers (freeing him from Tzeentch's influence), and Magnus is held in fairly comfortable conditions.
Heroic BSoD: Is this for about a minute when he realizes he'll have to abandon Fenris. He gets over it quickly due to having an escape via turning his fortress into a space station with everyone onboard.
Obfuscating Stupidity: He is far, far smarter than his barbarian king persona and reputation suggests, as seen when he quickly comes up with a proposal that would justify a second Bacta Conference.
Say My Name: MAGGGGGNNNNNNNUUUUUSSSSS!
The Promise: Makes one to his Legion that he will return if the Space Wolves are ever facing The Wolftime. He keeps it.
Tranquil Fury: Is this for a majority of the time. From the Dark Angels Chapter Master implying that Fenris may be destroyed to facing off against the other Primarchs.
Underestimating Badassery: To Taylor when he tries to establish control of the forces in Macragge. To Lelith Hesperax when she suggests fighting him.

Spoiler Character 5

Roboute Guilliman, The Master of Ultramar, The Avenging Son, Primarch of the Ultramarines, 13th Legion of the Space Marines

After the Horus Heresy, Guilliman took up the role of Lord Commander of the Imperium and Imperial Regent to begin the recovery after the internment of the Emperor of Mankind within the Golden Throne, only to be mortally wounded in a fight with his corrupted brother Fulgrim. Put into temporal stasis until such a time that someone would be able to heal him, an attack on Macragge itself prompts Archmagos Belisarius Cawl to hasten his healing.

He's Back!: After four thousand years kept in stasis, Cawl's medicine and Cato Valens' Heroic Sacrifice allow him to revive from his mortal injuries and kill Lorgar once for all.

The Frateris Templar

Theodora Gaius

Abbess-Crusader Theodora Gaius

Badass Preacher: She's ready and able to lead a full-blown crusade to support a Saint of the God-Emperor.
Church Militant: She's their local head.
Dying Moment of Awesome: Impaled by two of "Fulgrim's" blades, she stops him from withdrawing them from her body. The other fighters gain an advantage and Cawl later gets to put the blades in stasis to create an antidote for a poison afflicting a certain Primarch...
Friend to All Children: She's shown happily smiling to a little girl rescued from poverty.
Good Shepherd: Theodora supports Weaver's efforts to improve the downtrodden's conditions of living, personally visiting a brand-new orphanage to ensure the children are well-cared and happy.
Irony: She refuses to believe a daemon mocking her faith and claiming the Emperor hates being worshipped as a god, because everybody knows daemons lie. Not this time.
Kicked Upstairs: Was promoted to head the Frateris detachment of Operation Caribbean, then given an insultingly small command as a not so subtle hint from her superiors that she should consider the mission her sunset posting and retire after completing the mission.
Kingmaker Scenario: She was the one who asked Weaver to become a Sector Lady, seeing her as Nyx's chance to rise above their difficulties.
Parental Substitute: Towards her subordinate Galatea, who's reduced to tears when she helplessly watches Theodora die.
Never Mess with Granny: This elderly lady is the local commander for the armed forces of the Ecclesiarchy.
Retirony: Operation Caribbean was intended to be her last command before he superiors forced her to retire. She dies in the Siege of Commorragh in the battle against "Fulgrim".
Turbulent Priest: Lady Inquisitor Rafaela Harper was rather unhappy to hear her preaching Weaver's sainthood to the masses immediately after the Battle of the Death Star, since nothing has been confirmed yet.

Galatea Dumas

Legate Galatea Dumas

Like a Son to Me: Theodora fondly reminisces about her as a former student, and their onscreen interactions definitely have a mother-daughter vibe. It makes even more awful as Galatea helplessly watching Theodora die.
Not So Stoic: She struggles to not break down sobbing after witnessing her Parental Substitute Theodora sacrificing her life to save Rogal Dorn from "Fulgrim".
Number Two: For Theodora Gaius.
Passing the Torch: Takes up the role of Taylor's main religious ally, becoming the leader of the first Order of the Templar Sororitas.
Something about a Rose: In her first appearance, she's wearing a silver rose as hair decoration. Weaver later names the Templar Sororitas after it.

Terra

The Vandire Clan

An utterly corrupt family with great political and economical power whose center of power is in the Solar Segmentum. They seek to increase their influence in order, among other things, to turn it on Taylor after one of their own is killed indirectly through her actions.

Aristocrats Are Evil: Casual about assassinations and corruption.
Bearer of Bad News: Zenobia is often stuck delivering news to her father and uncle that they would rather not hear, such as about the cost of a bribery campaign or about how hated Ormuz has become due to his incompetence.
Big Eater: Nostradamus's mother Waltrude is making a pig out of herself during the argument about avenging his death.
Big, Screwed-Up Family: There's a lot of them and they don't get along very well.
Bullying a Dragon: Sending assassins after Taylor (although she's distracted from retaliating, at least in the short term, by Operation Caribbean).
Burn the Witch!: Mephistoles Vandire, a second cousin of Xerxes, is pretty eager at the idea of burning members of a Federation ship alive as heretics.
The Clan: An extensive one with members scattered across the different agencies of the Imperium.
General Failure: Ormuz is an incompetent and self-centered naval commander whose incompetence causes the worst losses in the defense of Cadia. While he's being relieved of command by force, he proceeds to seethe about the breach of the chain of command and starts plotting revenge, almost forgetting about the crucial fighting happening around him.
Land Poor: In a sense, they operate an extremely wealthy and populous system, however their economy is devoted solely to fattening the Vandaire's own pockets – the systemic debt of their homeworld is over 900 trillion Throne gelts, and their average annual deficit is 11%.
Miles Gloriosus: Nostradamus's eldest brother Ormuz (a Naval Admiral) is confident that his battlegroup (which hasn't seen combat in a hundred and fifty years) can wipe out Taylor's fleet in an hour. When sent to defend Cadia, he has a panic attack when a Chaos fleet engages his, resulting in his command suffering severe losses while waiting for orders.
Nepotism: The main reason most, if not all of them, have the important jobs they have.
Professional Butt-Kisser: Nostradamus's brother Zoroaster is a sycophant toward his father.
The Quiet One: Nostradamus's youngest siblings Zenobia and Abagnale (a sabotage official) remain silent during the dinner, and are noted as never being invited to speak by their father due to being among the more reasonable members of the family, and thus less likely to blindly agree with something like sending assassins after Taylor.
Thicker Than Water: While Zenobia acknowledges Ormuz's flaws, she insists on trying to save him from being court-martialed and executed, saying, "For all his faults, he is my brother."

Nostradamus Vandire, the Grox

An utterly corrupt member of the Adeptus Administratum who attempts to become Governor of Nyx and Lord of its Sector, he ends up losing any chance for survival when he faces Taylor Hebert.

Asshole Victim: After being forcibly conscripted into a Penal Legion, he becomes the first casualty of a battle when he's dangled as bait and gruesomely devoured by aquatic xenos.
Eaten Alive: His ultimate fate. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving chap.
Even Evil Has Standards: Low as the bar is, it nonetheless exists – as pointed by a furious Taylor condemning a paedo to hang, Nostradamus never sexually abused a child.
Gold-Colored Superiority: He ardently believes this.
Hoist by His Own Petard: Sent to the Penal Legions due to his scheming, and once there, when he's sent on a Suicide Mission, his only weapon (a bayonet) quickly breaks because he'd failed to maintain it properly on the months aboard the troop transport.
Middle Child Syndrome: In retrospect. He has four siblings who managed to find some degree of success in the core worlds (something which he did not); two older brothers who ingratiate themselves to their father through mindless obedience and flattery, and two younger siblings who are less respected but give off some quiet competence.
Pride Before a Fall: He appears supremely confident nothing can stop him from becoming a tyrant for the Nyx Sector. Weaver brutally disabused him from this opinion.
Reassigned to Antarctica: To quote his uncle;
Nostradamus had not been sent to the eastern galactic regions because he was diligent, competent, influential and on good terms with his genitor.
Small Role, Big Impact:
- Pre-Weaver, his only purpose in story was to beget the ancestors of Goge Vandire, who started the Reign of Blood that sundered the Imperium in the early 36th Millenium.
- In the story, his main purpose is to die an ignominious death in a Penal Legion so that the rest of his family can start a vendetta against Weaver for daring to sentence a Vandire to a Penal Legion in the first place.

Nicephorus Vandire

A member of the Vandire Clan, he may be its only sensible member as he (unsuccessfully) tries to guide his family away from trying to take revenge on Taylor.

Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Compared to his brother, Nicephorus refuses to let his pride blind him to the reality.
Good Parents: A rarity among his family. He tries to keep his children out of the family's sordid business by having them stay home during the dinner where the rest of the family discuss killing Taylor.
Ignored Expert: Among the Vandire clan, he appears as the only one with even the slightest grasp on politics and reality. Of course his relatives won't listen to him out of misplaced hubris.
Know When to Fold 'Em: When his brother wants to send assassins after Odysseus and Taylor for the death of Nostradamus, Nicephorus tries to talk him down. Xerxes reluctantly concedes to not target Odysseus and Nicephorus recognizes this is all he's likely to get out of his brother. Pushing to spare Taylor will just cause Xerxes to fly into a rage and send assassins after Odysseus out of spite, which Nicephorus knows would bring the Inquisition down on their heads.
Only Sane Man: He openly acknowledges how stupid and short-sighted it would be to try and assassinate people responsible for Nostradamus' demise, and vocally attempts to express it.
This Is Gonna Suck: He is deeply aware that his brother, if not the whole family, is heading for disaster after listening to his Tantrum Throwing after the Battle of Commorragh.

Xerxes Vandire

The head of the Vandire Clan and Master of the Administratum, he was father to Nostradamus and as such doesn't take kindly to his fall from grace.

0% Approval Rating: Even by the standards of Imperium bureaucrats, there are quite a few people who view Xerxes with nothing but disdain.
Evil Is Petty: He finds a way to screw Weaver out of a Triumph and the Order of Ollanus Pius in spite of her razing Commorragh, merely because he hates her.
Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: He's hell-bent on ignoring reality and his more savvy brother's advice to satisfy his self-assured bloated importance.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: According to Word of God, him denying Taylor a Triumph in the aftermath of Operation Caribbean actually benefits her (she was not ready for Terran politics, so not receiving a Triumph on Terra allows her to avoid Terra until she is ready for that level of political theater).
Overshadowed by Awesome: The ceremony inducting him into the High Lords of Terra is interrupted by the bell calling the Custodes to War, the Razing of Commorragh, and the Hour of the Emperor's Judgment, all of which benefit his enemy Taylor.
Papa Wolf: A subversion. He does seem infuriated to learn Nostradamus' fate, but it's mainly because a "commoner bitch" dared to spit on someone significantly more high-born.
Parental Favoritism: Of his five kids, he only seems to like and listen to the two eldest ones, both of whom comes across as talentless suck-ups.
Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Sums up his attitude towards ordering assassinations. He also buys his way onto the Twelve High Lords of Terra despite the majority of Terra's inhabitants shown so far knowing he's utterly unfit for the job.
Skewed Priorities: When hundreds of Vandire administrators are exposed as Slaaneshi cultists and killed, he is mad about the embarrassment and the loss of useful employees rather than horrified about the infiltration.
Tantrum Throwing: His reaction right after learning what Weaver did at Commorragh was lots of screaming and destruction of precious artefacts.
Unknown Rival: He hates Weaver for dragging the Vandire name into the mud, while Taylor treated him as just another noble opposed to her. At least until Ovation when he tried to seize several of the merchant ships and actually caught her attention.
Vetinari Job Security: Part of what is keeping him in power on the High Twelve, despite his blatant corruption and the God-Emperor starting to take a more active role in his government, is the shortage of viable replacements who aren't just as bad.

Paul von Oberstein

Lord Commander Militant Paul von Oberstein

The supreme commander of the Imperial Guard, and as such is Weaver's ultimate boss when she's wearing her Lady General hat (as opposed to the Living Saint or Planetary Governor hats). He holds a second-tier seat in the Senatorum Imperialis. He takes an interest in Weaver's career after the destruction of Commorragh, a major victory that incidentally netted him a great deal of political capital.

Heroes Love Dogs: He's quite competent and benevolent for a Terran politician, and deeply cares for the mastiffs that used to be his original unit's regimental mascots – Lonely at the Top also plays a role in this fondness, as the dogs are the only living beings left for him to trust.
Klingon Promotion: The head of the Imperial Guard is not currently one of the High Twelve. Oberstein's biggest political goal is to correct this, by getting the Chancellor of the Estate Imperium (a post currently held by a crony of Xerxes Vandire's) kicked out of the High Twelve so he can claim that slot.
Lonely at the Top: The closest thing he has to surviving comrades from his early days as a soldier are the descendants of the mastiffs that were the regimental mascots of his original unit. And he doesn't even have time to properly exercise them anymore.
The Mentor: Is trying to groom Weaver as a possible successor, despite the fact that they've never met.
Up Through the Ranks: All the way to the absolute top.

Captain-General Anubis Excelsor

The serving commander of the Adeptus Custodes, he is sent to meet with Weaver during Operation Caribbean to order her troops into the Dark City.

Awesomeness Is a Force: Everyone prostrates themselves when he walks on the Enterprise's bridge.
Badass Cape: Wears a regal red one, as expected of Custodes. Even Taylor, despite being a Combat Pragmatist and thinking it's impractical for fighting, admires the presence it gives. And during the Raid of Commorragh, when everyone else is dirty, wounded, and/or bloodied, his cape remained as pristine as ever, something that Taylor considers impossible as there has been fighting happening everywhere around them.
The Cavalry: When he offers his assistance to raid Commorragh.
Large and in Charge: He's towering over run-of-the-mill Astartes at more than three meters tall.
Meaningful Name: Not only Anubis refers to the Egyptian death god, Excelsor is Latin for "always upwards", fitting for the pinnacle of a human murder-soldier.
Stealthy Colossus: Taylor is completely dumbfounded when Anubis steps out of her ship's administratum quarters. She was not distracted and had countless bugs monitoring the area he came from. And yet, somehow, she never noticed the 3-meter-tall Custodes until he was walking out of the quarters. She didn't even note any hints of using a teleportarium: one second, there was nothing, then the next a three-meter tall transhuman in brilliant gold armor approaching from a mere 350 meters away.
Worthy Opponent: Regards Taylor as sufficiently dangerous that the Golden Throne's defenses (y'know, the place where the Emperor is staying permanently) need to be updated to take her in consideration, since the Throne's defences are anti-demonic and psykic in nature, but Taylor's insect control isn't. And that even that might not be enough.

The God-Emperor

His Most Holy Majesty, the Master of Mankind, the Last Guardian, the Anathema

The Master of Mankind since the 30th millenium, he attempted to unite all of humanity under one flag, only for him to be betrayed by his most beloved son, Horus. Currently in a state between living and dead, he permanently inhabits the Golden Throne, which sustains his life and allows him to project his enormous psychic power to provide humanity with the beacon known as the Astronomicon. The arrival of the parahumans gives him a chance to bring the Imperium to a more workable state by acting through them and other agents.

A God I Am Not: Extremely vocal about it. Needless to say, his current situation is everything he didn't want.
Batman Gambit: Objective J in Commorragh was only successful because the Emperor was able to predict Slaanesh's reaction to the assault.
Big Good: Whatever his (many) faults, he's still the greatest protector humanity has.
Determinator: Even after everything that has happened to him and seeing the Imperium's downward spiral, the Emperor is still determined to protect humanity and drive back Chaos.
Emperor Scientist: He was the one that created the Space Marines and the Primarchs. He also developed his own version of the Standard Template Constructs, with one of them being found by Cawl in Commorragh, containing the plans for the "Percival Siege-Breaker".
Greater-Scope Paragon: As the one watching over Mankind.
Humongous Mecha: The "Percival Siege-Breaker". According to Cawl, it is a "missing link" between large Knight suits and small Titans, with the internal systems, alloys, and neural interfaces being so effective that Cawl believes they can be used to increase the offensive and defensive capabilities of Knight Paladins by twenty percent, which is especially notable since the last modifications they got only improved them by 0.9%.
Kill the God: What he aimed to do by turning the Imperium into a secular, atheist utopia. Nowadays, he opts for a more direct approach by directing Fleet Caribbean to launch a full-blown assault against Commorragh, an event with the quite real potential to permanently weaken Slaanesh and lead to its destruction. He succeeds.
The Lost Lenore: The God-Emperor was not alone, but had a female peer who he considers the "mother" of the Primarchs. She died in one of the worst battles of the Cybernetic Revolt, which helped solidify the Emperor's view that all AI should be destroyed.
The Man Behind the Man: Courtesy of his current internment upon the Golden Throne, the Emperor is forced to act through agents.
Noodle Incident: Malcador loves to prod him about something that happened in the twentieth millenium that, judging by context, was about the Emperor's romantic conquest.
Not So Above It All:
- His private library is noted by those in the know to be so horribly disorganized that Magnus the Red begged for a punishment other than being forced to tidy it up.
- When meeting with Leman in a memory of what is clearly Arrakis, he shows up riding a giant worm and tosses the sand-hating Primarch back into it when they are done.
- Malcador still remembers how his friend tried to charm his way through an army of female assassins.
Only Known by Their Nickname: Everyone in the Imperium calls him the Emperor or His Most Holy Majesty. The only hint about his true name is the fact that it can be translated as "Revelation" – something that might also double as Names to Run Away From, as the likeliest candidate is the Greek Apocalypsis.
Parents as People: His relationship with the Primarchs is far from perfect.
- Jaghatai Khan blatantly called him flawed, yet he respected his vision for mankind and his staunch refusal to lie about the efforts it would take to make it real.
- He's obviously unhappy about erasing the Second Primarch and his Legion from the Imperium's records, yet muses it would have been a mortal blow to his ambitions of galactic domination if allowed to go public.
- He bluntly tells Omegon he would have killed the Primarchs the moment he found them over the possibility that they had been corrupted by Chaos if they hadn't been his children, right after admitting how proud he was of their achievements.
Rage Against the Heavens: He hates the Chaos Gods with the passion of a hundred thousand burning suns.
Seers: Has knowledge of the canon 40K timeline, and is capable of predicting the future to an extent, which allowed him to plot and kickstart the massive Batman Gambit that was the destruction of Slaanesh and Commmorragh. He was also able to predict the importance of Aurelia Malys and Karsaq El'Uriaq if they were to survive, as they would be turned into new Aeldari gods by Cegorach using the two surviving and purified Aspects of Slaanesh, which is why they were minor objectives on his list to Taylor. Unfortunately, they had to be one of the few failed objectives.
Shut Up, Hannibal!: He verbally shreds Sophia to pieces for her shortsighted cruelty, pointing that other parahumans also struggled with the Shards' conflict drives yet still managed to do good in spite of that.
Super-Empowering: He can bestow a fraction of his awesome psychic might upon certain humans, making these people Living Saints.
Swiss-Army Tears: A single tear from the Emperor serves as a catalyst to supercharge the Will of Eternity's anti-daemon cannon.
Tragic Dream: His vision of the Imperium's destiny is impossible with his current state. He ultimately chooses to abandon the old dream in favor of finding a new future for humanity.

The Aeldari

Malan'tai

Maea Teallysis

Seer Maea Teallysis

A (relatively) young Asuryani starting to walk the Path of the Seer, she manipulated one of the lesser Warbosses plaguing the Nyx Sector to the Fay System to engineer the death of both the Warboss and some Imperial leaders before they could potentially endanger Eldar interests. Her plans start going awry when Weaver makes her first appearance on Fay, causing the war to end in a way that Maea did not Forsee.

The Apprentice: To Lelith Hesperax, at Cegorach's request.
Break the Haughty: After losing her whole squad, being captured by disgusting humans, and being rejected by Elsar'bryn, Maea is quite rattled and not really eager to go back into the galaxy.
Cool Sword: Asu-var, the Crone Sword of the Silent Screams.
Everyone Has Standards: She's disturbed by Biel-Tan's excessive military and brutal actions.
Fantastic Racism: As common for Asuryani, Maea despises mankind, feeling the Mon-keighs are crude, polluting and barbarous.
I'm Having Soul Pains: The Second Fall completely destroyed the pre-existing paths to the future. Poor Maea quickly becomes a wreck from the unrelenting nightmares.
Odd Friendship: She develops this with Yvraine.
Sole Survivor: From the Malan'tai squad sent to Andes Primus.
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: When paired with Biel-Tan's Highseer Kaeran, Maea barely veils her contempt for him.
Took a Level in Badass: Rather forced to quickly improve her fighting skills after becoming the Queen of Blades' apprentice. It bears fruit when she has to fight in the Arena of Blades.
Worthy Opponent: During the Battle of Macragge, Maea observes the human defenders fighting the Chaos invaders to the end — and notes that her own Craftworld's defenders wouldn't have fought with as much valor against a similar event.

Biel-Tan

Vyrion Kaeran

Farseer Vyrion Kaeran

An ambitious officer of Biel-Tan, he has a vision that a human warleader in possession of a Sword of Vaul will travel to a world connected to the Webway in the near future and plots to claim it for himself. Unfortunately for him, and later his entire craftworld, Weaver turns out to be a lot harder to kill than he expected.

Did Not Think This Through: Maea notes that he clearly didn't spend much time planning his operation to reclaim Elsar'bryn once he knew when and where obtaining it was possible, which resulted in his forces getting wiped out by Taylor's swarm and Dragon's tanks.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Upon a Sword of Vaul, with spectacular consequences.
Mugging the Monster: Tried to steal Taylor's sword, and got his entire unit wiped out for it. Then he got stabbed with it.
Small Role, Big Impact: Just a low-level commander who picked a fight with an opponent outside his weight class and got slaughtered for it. But his Craftworld's insistence on avenging the death of his command at the hands of the Mon-Keigh Taylor Hebert turned Biel-Tan into her most persistent enemy for five arcs.
Smug Snake: Utterly convinced that taking Elsar'bryn from Mon-keigh hands will be a walk in the park, and as such doesn't even bother with strategy when he attacks Taylor. He didn't live long enough to regret it.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: The Cycle of Revenge his people started over his death not only cost his Craftworld 40% of their military, but it also angered the Imperium to the point that they end up hunting down Biel-tan and annihilate anyone still staying there.

Filgonilth Sirethmoren

Farseer Filgonilth Sirethmoren

A Farseer of the Biel-Tan Craftworld, he is one of the few opposed to Biel-Tan's plans to restablish the ancient Aeldari Empire, since he knows it is an impossible task.

The Exile: Ends up being banished from Biel-Tan for trying to stop the High Council from siding with the Drukhari in order to further their pointless vendetta against Weaver, which has escalated to the point where further failure could end up crippling the Craftworld.
Last of His Kind: He is the last of the Sirethmoren lineage as his wife and children were killed in a "purge" on a corrupted Maiden World, and all of his brothers perished hundreds of cycles ago.
My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Filgonilth is very strongly opposed to the revival of the Aeldari Empire, as he remembers the Empire's decadence and corruption which led to the Fall. Ironically, despite being a Farseer he protested the growing reliance of his people on Farseers for guidance and on the council. He is also appalled to learn about the High Council's decision to join forces with the Dark Eldars and defend Commorragh, the symbol of everything wrong with the Aeldari Empire, in order to get another chance of revenge against Weaver.
Only Sane Man: He is strongly opposed to Biel-Tan's hyper-militarism that is bleeding them dry of vital resources and people for little to no gain, but his warnings are outright ignored and shunned. He is the only person who speaks out against the High Council's decision to ally with the Dark Eldar and defending Commorragh against Weaver.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After being exiled from Biel-Tan for opposing their alliance with Commorragh to fighting Weaver, Filgonilth immediately takes his followers out of Biel-Tan for Malan'tai.

Jirkanith Maloskilen

Autarch Jirkanith Maloskilen

Last of His Kind: Like Filgonilth he is the last of his lineage.
Only Sane Man: Like his friend Filgonilth, Jirkanith is critical of Biel-Tan's hyper-militarism and doesn't believe in reviving the Aeldari Empire. He is also prudent and patient in his tactics and is lambasted for not attacking fast enough and not massacring enough Monkeigh.
Reluctant Retiree: Because of his non-conformist opinions and not being bloodthirsty enough, the High Council relieved him of his command and replaced him with a young upstart.

Gladiel Imrik

Autarch-Mariner Gladiel Imrik

A Father to His Men: Cares for the lives of his Mariners and is willing to sacrifice his reputation for them after suffering one of the worst defeats in Biel-Tan's history.
The Scapegoat: Gladiel decided to take sole responsibility for Biel-Tan's defeat in the Battle of the Death Star because he doesn't want to further damage the relationships between Biel-Tan and Malan'tai, and he also doesn't want the punishment shared to his men and their families.

Yvraine Kaydinn

Dire Avenger Yvraine Kaydinn

A soldier of Vyrion Kaeran who is the sole Biel-Tan survivor of his ill-fated expedition to acquire the Nebula's Shard.

Amazing Technicolor Population: After choosing the Passion Aspect of Atharti, Yvraine gains a bright red skin.
The Exile: Yvraine is forced to flee from Biel-Tan and live on Malan'tai as she is blamed by the High Council for failing to retrieve Elsar'bryn and for causing Kaeran's death.
My Species Doth Protest Too Much: She has zero respects towards her elders and the strict hierarchy of her home Craftworld. She especially doesn't like Farseers, calling them old fossils who are too high and mighty, and also lacking humor.
Odd Friendship: With Maea.
Young Future Famous People: The name is not a coincidence; this is the same Yvraine who would, in a different timeline, heal Roboute Guilliman's injuries and become the emissary of Ynnead.

Jain Zar

Phoenix Lord Jain Zar, the Storm of Silence.

Founder of the Howling Banshees order.

Disappointed in You: Completely pissed off over the Howling Banshees blindly following Biel-Tan's orders, she warns them they will need to work hard and start to think by themselves if they don't want for her to disown them.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: She tells the Biel-Tan council exactly what she thinks of them for getting billions killed at Commoragh and nearly preventing the destruction of Slaanesh to satisfy a petty feud and then withdraws all of her forces from the Craftworld and leaves them to be invaded by a future Space Marine Siege that will result in their utter destruction. She also promises that, if any of them don't die within the Craftworld, she'll kill them herself.

High Farseer Faer Machdavar

The short-sighted and vindictive leader of Biel-Tan's council.

Big Bad Wannabe: He's supremely convinced that he can defeat Taylor and restore the Aeldari empire when really he's just a minor threat (a xenos one who causes plenty of extra self-casualties) and more of a Spanner in the Works than anything.
I Reject Your Reality: He dismisses and screams at anyone who tries to tell him that his hatred of Weaver is irrational and that his actions are benefiting Slaanesh.
Never My Fault: Seeing hundreds of millions of Craftworld Eldar die due to his own decision, he tells himself: "Everything was Weaver's fault."
Suicidal Overconfidence: He's fully convinced that he has the military might to crush Weaver at Commorragh, and won't admit that his Craftworld is facing disaster until literally the last seconds of his life.
Villainous BSoD: He's slowly sinking into panic and dejection by the end of the final battle.

Commorragh

Sliscus

Travelliath Sliscus, "Duke" of Commorragh, The Serpent, Admiral of the Sky Serpents

The most powerful, and thus de facto leader, of the alliance of pirate bands based in the Pavia system.

Abhorrent Admirer: He apparently tried to lure Lelith Hesperax to his bed several times, but never succeeded as she thought him a pest.
Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: When Tzeentch's puppet tries to activate a ritual to sink all of Pavia into the Warp, he finds that the supplies Sliscus had sold him were all tainted with a toxin that would only activate in the presence of exactly the kind of sorcery said puppet intended to execute. The ritual is a complete failure and Taylor successfully destroys Tzeentch's patsy.
Better to Die than Be Killed: His view on having his soul annihilated rather than being taken by Slaanesh.
The Casanova: Aside from his massacres, Sliscus is most well-known in the Imperium for his hobby of wooing the wives of Planetary Governors and female Rogue Traders. He extends this to the Drukhari and Asuryani as well, even daring to try seducing Lelith Hesperax.
Cessation of Existence: Weaver actually manages to destroy his soul. Since it was that or being devoured by She-Who-Thirsts, Sliscus was pretty happy with this outcome.
Dying Moment of Awesome: His duel to the death against Weaver is compared to the one between the Emperor and the Arch-Traitor.
Establishing Character Moment: Appears before "his captains" bedecked in the skin of a xenos that is still screaming, bragging about his latest sexual conquest and inviting his "friends" to join him on an adventure. All of his "friends" smile and agree the entire time because they know not doing so will get them and their crews butchered.
Evil Is Petty: He has depopulated fifty planets either because they didn't follow an obscure Eldar custom or a resident couldn't properly say his name. Now that is a new low.
Fake Aristocrat: His status as Duke of Commorragh is entirely self-appointed and gives him no actual authority in the Dark City.
Faux Affably Evil: Sliscus likes to pretend he's a great man and friend of all his subordinates. He's also the 92nd most wanted being in the galaxy due to his countless atrocities, including completely depopulating fifty worlds. All of his allies are perfectly aware he will happily butcher them if given cause and make a quip while doing so.
Interspecies Romance: He mentions having several human women in his harem, and muses he may like them better than Aeldari females since they tend to last longer before trying to betray him.
Not Good with Rejection: When the Rogue Trader Magdalena Orpheus rejected his offer of sex, he badly scarred her face and raped her.
Villain Respect: Actually gives praise to Taylor for defeating him in combat and tells her a bit about what she may find in Commorragh. Before this he told Hoth that the Imperium assault on Pavia was quite impressively organized.

Asdrubael Vect

Founder and Leader of the Cabal of the Black Heart, he captured the Salamanders Strike Cruiser Forgehammer as part of a plot to use the Salamander's inevitable retribution to become the ruler of Commorragh, not expecting that the invasion fleet would be earlier and much larger than expected thanks to Operation Caribbean.

Ambition Is Evil: Has vowed that he will rule Commorragh or see it wiped from existence. Visions of possible futures show that if he does take over the planet, then his reign will make make the death and suffering on Commorragh (which is already a Crapsack World up to eleven) far worse.
Better to Die than Be Killed: Uses a Soul Obliterator to kill himself and prevent Slaanesh from claiming his soul.
Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: When facing his likely death at the hands of Slaanesh's Arch-Priestess, Morathi Uldanesh, Vect tells her that Lelith Hesperax is far more beautiful than her.
Do Not Go Gentle: When it becomes obvious that Slaanesh is not going to let him escape, he detonates several Anti-Empyrean bombs to kill all those who succumbed to She-Who-Thirsts and then fights even though he knows he does not have the means to actually win.
If I Can't Have You…: He will rule over Commorragh or he will ensure the city will perish with his ambitions. He eventually makes his promise on the latter as he detonates a series of Anti-Empyrean bombs on Low Commorragh after his army succumbs to and is converted by Slaanesh's forces.
Oh, Crap!: As Slaanesh's forces attack, he gets frightened enough to order a withdrawal to his fortress and hope to ride things out while deploying weapons outside to slaughter the opposition.
Taking You with Me: Attempts this on Malekith. If the former Emperor had been 16cm closer, it would have worked.
Villainous Valor: He might be a monster who would have become one of the most evil beings in the galaxy, but he goes down swinging, spending his last days valiantly fighting against a Slaaneshi force that outnumbers his own significantly, taking a lot of them with him.
While Rome Burns: His last act before destroying his own soul is to go to the top of the tallest tower he can find and gaze upon the destruction the Imperium has unleashed while enjoying a bottle of wine.
Young Future Famous People: He enters the story one day before he would have started his ascent to become one of the most dangerous and powerful beings in the galaxy. Making sure he doesn't succeed is an explicit objective of the Battle of Commorragh.

Aurelia Malys

Aurelia Malys, the Queen of Hearts, High Priestess of Atharti

A slave-concubine of Vect who escapes during the Imperial invasion of Commorragh, and finds herself rising to higher and higher positions as she struggles to survive in the ensuing chaos.

Action Survivor: Like everyone else in the Dark City, she was caught totally by surprise by a sudden near-five day battle that resulted in the death of 87% of her race. Despite that, she managed to beat the odds and escape Commorragh alive. Made even more impressive by the fact that she was marked by name as a secondary target of the invasion fleet (which none of the Archons were), and she still somehow made it out.
All Your Powers Combined: As the High Priestess of Atharti, she doesn't have to choose between Passion, Moderation or Harmony. Instead, she can freely use all three.
Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Not her specifically, but her implanted Aspect. After fleeing Commorragh, she is approached by an envoy of Cegorach, who implants her with a purified shard of the late Slaanesh, becoming a incubation vessel for it so it will eventually transform into a new Aeldari god, the Eldar Goddess of Carnality, which would help with the Asuryani's fertility issues from lacking Isha. Aurelia herself will only become the Eldar equivalent of a Living Saint at some point in the future.
Canon Immigrant: Not Aurelia herself, obviously, but rather Atharti, the goddess of Pleasure and Seduction that Cegorach plans to turn her implanted Aspect into, is a resident of the Warhammer Fantasy universe.
Enemy Mine: Works together with Taylor, the woman that led the razing of Commorragh and the death of 85% of the Drukhari race, to face Ezekyle Abaddon and Khaine and build Atharti. Following her ascension to High Priestess of Atharti, they gradually drop the enmity and become more willing to cooperate as outright allies rather than oppose each other.
Field Promotion: By virtue of surviving battle after battle, she went from slave to a Dracon commanding a regiment of soldier during the razing of Commorragh.
Heart Symbol: The shard of Carnality she's implanted with appears as a pinkish crystalline heart, and she takes the moniker "Queen of Hearts". It's obviously intended to evoke lust and pleasure.
Lady in Red: She's introduced to Ulthwe wearing a crimson and gold dress, then proceeds to show off her Living Aphrodisiac nature.
Living Aphrodisiac: When she is given the purified Aspect of Carnality, she becomes this. All she has to do is touch an Eldar, and they feel a rapid feeling of sexual desire.
Lost in a Crowd: Malys was one of millions, if not billions, of conscripted Dark Eldar fighting against the Imperium. It's little wonder that the kill squads going after high profile targets like the Dynasts and Vect would have trouble finding Malys who likely wasn't even known by name to her superiors.
Sex Slave: Her situation in M35 was to be a lowly slave-concubine to Vect.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When the Imperial forces destroy Xelian's spire, Aurelia understands that Commorragh is going to be razed to the ground. She proceeds to take the Drukhari under her command and flee to a Craftworld rather than go down with the Dark City.
Shell-Shocked Veteran: When reading her future writings, it's obvious that the "Second Fall" left a deep impression upon her. Among other things, she mentions in her writings that the Mark of Commorragh permanently scarred the souls of every Aeldari who lived through it.
Young Future Famous People: In the original timeline, she eventually rose to become an Archon nearly as important as Vect, but at the time she enters the story during the razing of Commorragh she is just a no-name slave who escapes in the confusion. The memoirs she pens in the future indicate that like in her original life, she still manages to rise to become someone of importance after being forced to leave the Dark City.

Lelith Hesperax

Aenaria Eldanesh, AKA Lelith Hesperax, the Queen of Blades, First Sword-bearer, Herald of Vaul, the Third Endbringer

The last surviving Aeldari from the War in Heaven, and arguably the most personally dangerous individual in the Materium.

Absurdly Sharp Blade: This is the true ability of Lelith's weapon Ala'ra, the First Sword Of Vaul. It was made with the purpose to cut and sever, no matter how resistant or strong the target.
Actually Pretty Funny: When Taylor zings Malekith by saying that the standards must have been rather low if he made the cut as Emperor of the Aeldari, she finds it hilarious.
Adaptational Badass: Lelith was already one of the most dangerous mortals in the source material, but her new backstory elevates Lelith to being quite possibly the most dangerous individual in the galaxy.
Affably Evil: Leilith is this to Taylor who she seems to have actually grown to like even somewhat fondly referring to her as 'Little Queen'.
Arch-Enemy: Becomes the Third Endbringer, making her this for Taylor. That being said Leilith doesn't seem to feel any real hatred or even dislike of Taylor. And in practice, the trope is Subverted or at the very least put on hold for the time being, as plenty of more dangerous and evil threats like the Tyranids and Chaos have forced the two to work together for the time being.
Aura Vision: While trapped with Taylor for several hours, she subtly uses her powers to look at Taylor's mind and sees the Queen Administrator and the Shardspace dimension it's residing in connected to Taylor's brain. She also sees the Shard being changed by the Emperor's psychic power, and that with two more battles on the level of Commorragh it will go into a "chrysalis" and transform, though even she doesn't know what will happen when it does.
Bad Boss: She kills her minions for making her waste her words or not fulfilling her orders quick enough.
Big Damn Heroes: Comes to the rescue of Cegorach when he finds himself defenseless against Slaanesh.
Blood Knight: Her reaction when she hears of Commorragh's invasion is getting excited for the possibility to find a Worthy Opponent there.
Blue Blood: A descendant of Eldanesh, the greatest hero in the history of the Aeldari, and therefore royalty. Despite this, has no real interest in the throne herself, and is the one to ratify Taylor's claim to the crown through strength of arms.
Boring Yet Practical: Her Sword of Vaul can only morph into different types of blades when she wills it. That allows her to change her style swordwomanship on the fly, and her sheer talent (and the sword's extreme sharpness) does the rest.
Challenge Seeker: Is endlessly in search of opponents who can give her a challenge, which is hard to find even when obviously holding back, because she's just that good.
Character Development: Initially, she was mostly defined by her wish to find opponents that can give her a challenge. Over time, she has become someone willing to tease people, make jokes and actually pout when someone states she's not the prettiest woman in the universe.
Cool Sword: Ala'ra, the first of the one hundred Swords of Vaul.
Cool and Unusual Punishment: Her suggested punishment for Guts and Casca after being told that she is not the most beautiful compared to Casca and Guts stood by his word? Marry them in front of a million-sized crowd.
Curb-Stomp Battle: She deals these out to daemons left and right during the Battle of Commorragh. The only one who has actually caused her any real difficulty is a weakened Slannesh itself, who she eventually assists Cegorach in destroying.
Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: She makes a living of this during Extermination 8.4. Case in point, laughing at Malekith when Taylor zings the guy. Later in Extermination 8.5 she tells Slaanesh to its face that it is "a bit weak to be the Doom of the Aeldari" after the Chaos god got hit by the Blackstone Fortress' attack.
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: In Extermination 8.4 she permanently kills two Daemon Princes.
- She rips Behemoth in half during the Battle of Maccrage.
Didn't See That Coming: When she decided to accept Taylor as Aeldari Empress, it was meant to be just a joke, since there's been no empire in millenia. When Taylor manages to use that authority to create Atharti, she's caught off guard.
The Dreaded: She manages to strike fear in the Drukhari, a Primarch and the Necrons. Matter of fact, according to confirmation by Word of God, the Emperor didn't put fighting/killing her in his list of Objectives to Taylor because he knew that any attempt of conflict with her would wipe out Taylor's army and ruin his plan.
Dude, Where's My Respect?: Despite being a descendant of Eldanesh and known as the greatest living hero among the Aeldari, nobody took her seriously when she tried to warn them that making Malekith Emperor is a bad idea.
- On the other hand, Played for Laughs as she pouted when Guts claimed Casca is more beautiful than her and stood by his word.
Fallen Hero: She was once a great champion of the Aeldari and spent millions of years rooting out the cults whose successors would ultimately doom her people. Eventually exiled for her warnings, after witnessing the Fall she lost all motivation to aid the remaining Aeldari within the Webway and became solely focused on seeking worthy opponents to kill.
The Fighting Narcissist: While she avoids the worst aspects of this trope, she is an absolute primadonna when it comes to her arenas. She spends literal hours listing her many expectations for the arena Taylor needs to build.
Foil: Word of God confirmed a few readers' question that Aenaria is the Aeldari equivalent of the God-Emperor, or at least the closest thing to an Aeldari equivalent. Both are pretty much currently the apex of their respective species in psychic might, can resist Chaos to various extents due to their power/skill^note, have the capability to actually wound Chaos and kill their daemons, and both of them are The Ageless.^note However, while the Emperor's power is naturally Anathema to Chaos, Aenaria has to consciously purify her aura to destroy daemons with her powers. While the Emperor's psychic power is gold coloured, Aenaria's is bright silver. The Emperor is, and always was, the absolute most powerful human psyker in history, while Aenaria technically falls short compared to the first Aeldari and is only considered the apex of the species nowadays after the standards have fallen. And finally, while the Emperor still decided to aid and unify Humanity after their fall in the Age of Strife, Aenaria has completely turned her back on the Aeldari after the Fall due to them ignoring her guidance and warnings about the birth of Slaanesh and now only exists for her own desires.
Foregone Conclusion: Records indicate that the bounty on her head is still unclaimed at the turn of the 42nd millennium, so it's safe to say that this is one Endbringer Weaver will never permanently defeat.
The Friend Nobody Likes: While she is a loose ally of Taylor and the Imperium after the Battle of Commorragh almost all of them only put up with her because they don't have the ability to kill her. The Imperial Fists and their successor chapters in particular despise her for cutting off their Primarchs hand.
Gone Horribly Right: She named Taylor Empress of the Aeldari as a joke. Several arcs later, she is flabbergasted when Taylor uses said authority to kickstart the creation of Atharti.
Heroic Vow: Lelith made a promise to Vaul which compelled her to protect the Aeldari, even from themselves, until the Fall destroyed all faith she had in her race.
Hold the Line: Her fight against Slaanesh is pretty much herself holding off the Chaos God while Cegorach recovers and the Blackstone Fortress prepares its final shot.
I Have Many Names: Lelith Hesperax, Qa'leh, Alarielle Starblade, Vela'ra Delenor and Aenaria Eldanesh are only a few names amongst the millions she wore in all her eons of existence. But no matter what name she wears, she is always the Queen of Blades.
Implausible Fencing Powers:
- Aeldari can already be extremely skilled at swordmanship due to being able to train for thousands of years, but Lelith takes it to its "ultimate expression", which Trazyn describes as being able to sever and remodel reality itself. She was able to cut a flaming anti-matter meteor in half and freeze the two halves in a frozen field of space-time. With a single slash. And according to Trazyn, such a technique isn't sorcery; she's just that skilled!
- She later showed Taylor first-hand just how skilled she is. She not only sliced entire legions of daemons with only a few strikes, but also launched literal thousands of sword strikes within a second, all while not going all-out. And then Lelith reveals she's able to permanently kill daemons and Daemon Princes by cutting into the Immaterium to rend apart their essence, causing her to actually wound Slaanesh!
Ignored Expert: Everyone ignored her when she claimed that picking Malekith as the Aeldari Emperor was a bad choice, and also when she stated that keeping up with the cults was going to bring in problems. The former kickstarted the worst excesses of Aeldari society, which combined with the latter caused the birth of Slaanesh.
I Am Not Left-Handed: Sandbags in pretty much all of her fights because if anyone saw her when she really went all out, nobody would ever have the guts to fight her again.
Logical Weakness: She admits that, despite being focus on her swordsmanship, she is still a powerfully psychic being. As such, she hasn't gone to fight the Throne of Oblivion herself is because the null-zone it generates significantly hurts her both psychically and physically.
Living Relic: While there are other Aeldari who lived before the Fall, Lelith is the only living Aeldari from the time of the War in Heaven.
Master Swordsman: Isn't called the Queen of Blades for no reason. She is quite possibly the single greatest living melee fighter in the galaxy. And has held that distinction since the days when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
Meaningful Appearance: The Queen of Blades has no scars. She constantly fought the biggest and baddest foes she could find in the galaxy for eons, and she has no scars left from this. That's how good she is.
The Mentor: to Maea, at Cegorach's request.
Morph Weapon: Her Sword of Vaul has the power to change shape into the perfect type of sword for any style its wielder might want to utilize. Not as impressive as some of the other Swords of Vaul, but given how good a swordswoman she is, it's all she really needs. Considering this is the very first Sword of Vaul, it doesn't need "impressive". It is purely a weapon meant for war and nothing else.
My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Despite being identified as Dark Eldar, Lelith has nothing but disdain for what the Drukhari of Commorragh have become.
Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: She originally pursued swordsmanship because her psychic potential was considered unexceptional in her generation. It was only after multiple generations of Aeldari growing progressively weaker during their descent into decadence that her potential could be considered "exceptional" for her race.
Not So Above It All: She's an absolute primadonna when it comes down to the arena she wants as her prize for killing Rakarth. She also cracks up at Taylor's accidental zinger for Malekith. During the time spent at the Abyss of Dreams, she creates a platform that allows Taylor to rest — and vanishes it when she hears Taylor complaining about something.
- She also loves hot showers and baths, to the point that threatening to shut off the hot water in her lodges at the Arena of Blades is enough to get her to behave.
Offered the Crown: Cegorach offered to make her a new Aeldari goddess after Commorragh. She declines, so he moved to birthing new gods using the purified shards of Slaanesh he had captured.
Older Is Better: The Queen of Blades, the perfect mistress of her craft, was actually living to fight in the War in Heaven.
Pals with Jesus: She casually addresses Cegorach, outright criticizing his plans.
The Perfectionist: Played for Laughs. She complains to Guts about his display of swordsmanship with his "ugly slab of black metal" for a weapon that is Dragonslayer as his lack of elegance and technique is hurting her eyes, which she then demands he don't do it again in her presence.
Pragmatic Villain:
- She sternly commands her followers to stop using the derogatory slur "Mon-keigh". Insulting someone who proved themselves ready and able to slaughter you is never a good idea.
- When she hears of Necrons and Daemons invading Commorragh, Lelith abandons her Stripperific Wychsuit and generic Dark Eldar weapons. Instead, she goes into battle with her Aeldari Empire armor and Vaul blade.
Rank Up: After Commorragh, she is promoted from the Imperium's 13th Most Wanted to the 11th Most Wanted. This is mainly for political reasons, as even her old, inaccurate threat rating was so high that one would have to be utterly insane to try fighting her if there was any other alternative, and correcting the records and pushing her up two slots doesn't make it any less suicidal.
Reality Warper: Lelith's mastery of the blade is such that she can sever and remodel reality with a single swing of the blade. An extension of this ability allows her to sever the barrier with the Immaterium in order to cut apart the essence of daemons, permanently killing them.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Noted to have red irises, and is considered powerful enough to on Taylor's Endbringer list.
Refusal of the Call:
- She got offered to be made a Goddess by Cegorach after Commorragh, but she refused the offer. Though this meant Cegorach went with his Plan B of giving Karsaq El'Uriaq and Aurelia Malys the surviving, but purified, Aspects of Vainglory and Carnality to eventually turn them into new gods of the Aeldari pantheon.
- Lelith has the potential to become a second Anathema and even believes she's the only being capable of surviving the trials given the galaxy's current state. However she refuses as the price is too "monstrous" and the rewards lacking.
Run or Die: She now registered as this, for the rest of the Imperium. Her updated Wanted Poster warns everyone to Flee on Sight of her; not "Don't engage unless you have X and Y support, if not Flee on Sight"^note. Just "Flee on Sight".
Shrouded in Myth: She has lived so long and taken on so many different names that until she fought in Commorragh nobody knew her history. For example, one of her alter egos, Qa'leh, is a Dark Muse venerated by many of the Wych cults.
Simple, yet Awesome: Lelith mainly uses the power of her Sword of Vaul to change what type of sword it is, yet she lays waste to entire legions of daemons with it. Then 8-5 reveals that it does have a secret power...
Single-Stroke Battle: Makes her entrance to Commorragh by first cutting an anti-matter meteorite in half with one swing of her sword, followed up by cutting a C'tan shard in half with a second swing. She later repeats the feat by destroying Rakarth and Morathi Uldanesh (both former Aeldari who became Slaaneshi Daemon Princes) and finishes it by wiping out entire armies of demons by letting out her full power.
Sink or Swim Mentor: When Maea becomes her apprentice, Lelith feels no remorse nor hesitation to throw her into situations forcing her to grow stronger... or die. And if Maea dies, Lelith resurrects her to force her through the same gauntlet until she passes.
Story-Breaker Power: Could have killed Taylor and destroyed her army at Commorragh had she felt like it. Fortunately for Taylor and the Imperium Lelith feels no attachment to the Dark Eldar and simply makes sure Taylor will build her a new Arena which was apparently the only thing in the city she liked.
Terse Talker: So much she will kill a lackey for making her repeat herself.
Time Abyss: Lelith is older than Slaanesh. She's older than the God-Emperor. She's so old, she was fighting in the War in Heaven.
Training from Hell: Subjects Maea to this in the Shrieking Labyrinth, by dumping her there to fight whatever is inside. No armor allowed because everything can kill you in a single strike, but she will come back from it so it's not a problem. That doesn't make Maea's deaths any less painful.
"Wanted!" Poster:
- She was the 13th Most Wanted Being Of The Imperium, being considered an Extremis-Level Sword Master and Extremis-Omega Physical Threat, having a bounty of 1 Quadrillion Throne Gelts and 1 Sector Overlordship to whoever killed her, along with the order to not engage her unless you had a Legion of Astartes and a Primarch, and if not then to flee on sight. Keyword being "was". Post-Commorragh, with her full capabilities-revealed, she's now upgraded to the 11th Most Wanted, with her now being rated as an Omega-Extremis level Weapon Master and an Alpha-Plus Level Psyker, with her reward also increased to 1.5 Quadrillion Throne Gelts, 1 Sector Overlordship, being granted the title of Blade-Master, Imperial Luarels, and a Hymn-Class Paradise Station. Oh, and the order for support dealing with her? That's gone now. Its replacement? "Flee On Sight."
- There is also a standing price on her head from the Necrons dating back to the War in Heaven, which is the oldest known bounty in recorded history.
Willfully Weak: All the apocalyptic swordplay in Extermination? She's just fucking around. When she stops fucking around entire demonic armies evaporate instantly.
The Worf Effect: No matter how powerful her opponent, Lelith easily trumps them.
- The C'tan shard which wiped out an entire Aeldari fleet and is currently about to destroy a major node in Commorragh is destroyed with just two swings of her sword.
- She inflicts a major defeat upon Trazyn and sends him appearing before Taylor and frantically advising abandoning the entire solar system.
- Then, it turns out that she's the one who defeated and captured the Primarch Rogal Dorn.
- She singlehandedly (and easily) kills demons with power levels akin to Ka'Bandha, which took everything Taylor had to (including her ascension as a Saint) to defeat.
- She managed to hold her own against a weakened Slannesh manifesting in an Avatar, though its Downplayed as it was noted by Cegorach that she's was quickly losing and only able to delay Slaanesh.
World's Most Beautiful Woman: She is considered the most physically attractive character that has appeared in story so-far. Taylor thinks her body is physically perfect in every way possible, her voice is described as like a choir of singing angels and almost made Taylor lose her wits (and caused Leet to drool unashamedly), and Vect even admitted that she is far more beautiful than Morathi, the Arch-Priestess of Slannesh and former Empress of the Phoenix courts and the Aeldari.

Archon Xelian

Big Bad Wannabe: Xelian thinks he's in charge of Commorragh, but Vect is poised to overthrow him, and the Imperium barely cares whether he lives or dies.
The Caligula: An arrogant, petulant ruler who kills anyone who rubs him the wrong way and lives for ordering torture and massacres.
Decapitation Presentation: He loses his head to Vect, who proudly displays it.
Fantastic Racism: He very nearly executes one of his top commanders for using the word "human" instead of "Mon-keigh".
Never My Fault: His leadership both before and during the battle is responsible for allowing the humans so much success, but he refuses to consider this, going into screaming fits blaming Vect or various military commanders who he proceeds to have horribly executed.
Villainous Breakdown: He goes from frustratedly ranting and executing people while confident of victory and having time to rebuild to displaying more stunned uncertainty and lashing out in a more panicked and desperate manner as the raid progresses.

Dynast Lythric Kreillich

Ain't Too Proud to Beg: After being badly wounded and captured he tries to bribe the humans into sparing his life, unsuccessfully.
Bad Boss: Favors some pretty brutal execution methods at the drop of a hat and regularly doses his bodyguards with poison while hanging onto the antidote to make sure stye have a strong incentive to keep him alive.
Cutting the Knot: He isn't afraid to break out weapons that require all of the Dynasts approval on his own accord when he feels the situation is desperate.
Shoot the Messenger: Constantly kills those bringing bad news but as the news gets worse has to stop just because he's running out of messengers.
Taken for Granite: His favored method of execution is dipping subordinates into a pool of sapphire-colored lava inch by inch while having dosed them with stimuli-enhancing drugs to increase the agony, then takes what's left out to serve as statutes. After the early stages of Taylor's attack, he vows that his executioners while create thousands of new statues out of the subordinates he blames for this.

Succubus Jezekel "The Bloody Baroness"

Do Not Go Gentle: Fights with determination even in the face of hopelessness.
Jezekel: If She-who-Thirsts wants my soul, come and take it over my dead body.
A Lighter Shade of Black: Indulges in the same bloody excesses as the other denizens of the planet, but does recognize and feel disgust at Xelian's excesses, and bravely focuses on trying to stop Slaanesh.
Oh, Crap!: When she sees Khaine's Gate start to crack, and understand She-Who-Thirsts is coming to ravage Commoragh.
Villain Respect: She is the first major leader of Commorragh to recognize that the humans have earned being called by their proper name.

Admiral-Marquis Madrax Ysclyth

Determined Defeatist: He becomes more and more convinced that his efforts are hopeless and that issuing an evacuation would be the smartest thing to do, but keeps on fighting due to his Fantastic Racism refusing to allow him to run from "mon-keigh", as well as a suspicion that he'd be executed on the spot if he dared to suggest this.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: While more competent than most Aeldari, he definitely has this.
Madrax: These... lesser species have always been delusional where qualities are concerned. They seem to believe honor, faith, and loyalty, among other things, are important.
Reassigned to Antarctica: He was assigned to command a line of defense that no one ever imagined any attacker would be able to reach (Weaver proves them wrong) for not getting enough slaves on a raiding party.
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: He utterly despises the forces of Biel-Tan and their arrogance, although he does express concern at a fellow Admiral tricking them into being canon fodder.
Uncertain Doom: He just disappears from the story a couple chapters before the mark, and there's no indication that he escaped, but also no confirmation that he died.
You Have Failed Me: He doesn't hesitated to horrifically execute subordinates as the battle rages on, and shows fear of falling victim to this himself.

Succubus Sorala

Defector from Decadence: Has utterly despised the Xelian Dynasty since long before the battle and doesn't hesitate to abandon her duties to them and teleport their heir into the depths of the prison.
Friendly Rival: Is implied to have had this relationship with Jezekel.
I Lied: When Gryveth Xelian tries to appeal to an oath of loyalty she made (while she's holding him prisoner) her reply is...
Sorala: I muttered some words with a blade against my throat. Sound familiar?
This Is Unforgivable!: Announces that Xelian's conduct during the invasion and complete failure to take adequate measures against either Taylor or Slaanesh has been the last straw for her.
Wardens Are Evil: Zigzagged. While she does run a pretty grim and unpleasant facility, she chooses to go and either fight the invaders or flee rather than try to murder all of the prisoners like Xelian wants.

Lugganath

Ulion Lakadieth

Leader of one of the pirate fleets that docks in Pavia. He is known for ransoming captives rather than slaughtering them and his booty goes to restoring his Craftworld.

Badass on Paper: Became an instant legend to his Craftworld for facing the Angel of Death and surviving. Ulion conveniently doesn't mention he shamelessly begged for her to let him go as long as he coughed a very big ransom for his life.
The Bus Came Back: He leads a fleet to Fenris in order to screw with Lorgar's plans.
Expy: For all his legendary bravery and genuine fighting abilities, he very much wants to stay far, far away from the frontlines only for his Craftworld to insist on giving him even more dangerous missions out of respect for his reputation — giving Ulion shades of Caiphas Cain, Eldar Edition. He's even the Hero of Lugganath, just like Cain is HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!.
Know When to Fold 'Em: He chooses not to fight Taylor and pays a ransom for himself and his fleet to depart, making him the only significant opponent she faces in the campaign to walk away intact. This fact makes Lakadieth a Living Legend back home after the Mark of Commorragh.
Mercy Rewarded: His habit of ransoming victims rather than killing them saves his life during Operation Caribbean. Taylor chose to pay him the same courtesy, demanding a ransom in exchange for his life, unlike most of the pirates who she killed without question.
Red Baron: He's called The King of Ransoms.
Token Good Teammate: The only one of the pirate lords besides Calico the Rashan who seems to have a good idea of mercy and selflessness.

Shaa-dom

Karsaq El'Uriaq

Tyrant of the realm of Shaa-dom.

Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Not him specifically, but the Aspect given to him by Cegorach. Using him as a vessel, it will eventually transform into a new Aeldari god. Karsaq himself will only become the equivalent of a Living Saint at some point in the future.
Canon Immigrant: Not Karsaq himself, obviously, but rather Addaioth, the god of All-Consuming Flame and Wrath that Cegorach plans to turn his implanted Aspect into, is a resident of the Warhammer Fantasy universe.
Godhood Seeker: He's absorbed an Anathema-purified form of Slaanesh's Vainglory that was stolen and offered to him by Cegoragh, and seeks to become God of Murder.
Mark of the Beast: When he and Addaioth refuse to bow to Taylor, she curses them and their followers with dark skin and vibrant orange hair, so everyone who sees them know what they have done.
Rabble Rouser: He's introduced making a speech celebrating the death of Slaanesh but rejecting the new path proposed for the Eldar and manipulating the crowd for his own ambitions.
Unwitting Pawn: The Laughing God is manipulating him to birth an new Aeldari god, but he can't see it.

Iath Bloodweaver

A pirate lord of Pavia and Shaa-dom Eldar notorious for his cruelty.

Bad Boss: He shoots one of his men (when every one is needed to fight the insects) for criticizing his (pretty bad) judgment.
The Butcher: Known as "Shaa-dom's Reaper" he is guilty of hundreds of thousands of actsof mass murder, slavery and other atrocities, being one of the most infamous of the Pavia pirates.
Combat Sadomasochist: He kind of enjoys the sensations of agony throughout his doomed ship.
Did Not Think This Through: He challenges Taylor to trial by combat. She chooses carnivore insects as her champions.
Eaten Alive: He's devoured by Taylor's spiders.
Sadist: His ship is filled with torture chambers.

Ulthwe

Eldrad Ulthran

Farseer of Ulthwe.

Amazing Technicolor Population: After choosing the Moderation Aspect of Atharti, Eldrad gains blue skin.
Didn't See That Coming: The Battle of Commorragh wasn't in any of his countless vision of the future, although he's quick to understand the potential risks and benefits of his species once he considers the Emperor's endgame.
I Need a Freaking Drink: Immediately after he confirms Slaanesh's death, he makes plans to announce it and immediately afterwards drink himself into unconsciousness.
May–December Romance: He's one of the oldest Asuryani, while Aurelia Malys is relatively young for their race. They share a sexual tryst when they meet at a party and are implied to pursue some kind of relationship afterwards.
Not So Above It All: Regardless of his station, he is still more than able of behaving in a less-than-mature way — like telekinetically throwing a book at a friend of his for teasing him.
Old Master: He mentions he's not that young anymore several times.

Alaitoc

Mariuvahn Moonblitz

A renegade Alaitoc Eldar and pirate whose wanted poster accurately described him as a "Genocidal Eldar."

Everyone Has Standards: His atrocities were such that his own Craftworld banished him.
The Exile: His Craftworld was disgusted by his atrocities and defiance of their goals and banished him.
Fantastic Racism: Utterly despises humans/mon-keigh as despoilers of Maiden World and strives to exterminate them everywhere he can find them and feels they posses no true intelligence.
Kill It with Fire: He's quickly killed and completely consumed by Weaver's Fire Storm.
The Starscream: He was scheming to overthrow Sliscus.
We Hardly Knew Ye: He dies in his first POV section.

Eldorath Starbane

The senior Farseer of Alaitoc.

Pointy-Haired Boss: He is still dismissive of the humans after the Battle of Commorragh, fails to understand how the actions of Biel-Tan have tainted the reputation of Craftworld Eldar, and confidently proposes suicidal military actions against the Dark Throne and the Stormlord. Fortunately, his fellow council members are somewhat more reasonable.

Iyanden

Yriel Uldanesh

"Prince" Yriel Uldanesh

A descendant of the Aeldari Hero Uldanesh, and as such a member of one of the two original royal houses of the Aeldari Empire (The other being the descendants of the Hero Eldanesh, who include among their number the Queen of Blades). He is part of Cegorach's plan to use the six Croneswords at Macragge to stop Oblivion.

Bastard Bastard: Technically illegitimate under Asuryani law (his father never formally claimed him, and in fact is totally unknown), making his claim to royalty (on his mother's side) suspect. Also a colossal jerk.
Blue Blood: A descendant of Uldanesh, the second greatest hero in the history of the Aeldari, and therefore royalty. As part of this, he finds the throne being claimed by the Mon-Keigh Maelsha'eil Dannan to be an unforgivable insult.
Cool Sword: Wields one of the six Croneswords.
Fantastic Racism: Hates humans, and refuses to grasp the lesson of Commorragh that like them or not, there are a lot of them, they have a lot of guns, and they are running low on patience with the Eldar.
Take a Third Option: Refuses to worship Athtarti (which brings with it servitude to Maelsha'eil Dannan) or Addaioth (which brings with it servitude to Abaddon) in favor of trying to find a way to create another god for his people.
Too Dumb to Live: Publicly casts aspersions on the integrity of the Queen of Blades, an act so mind-bogglingly stupid that a Harlequin takes it upon himself to try to literally beat some sense into him with a stick. It doesn't take.
Young Future Famous People: In the original timeline, he would have risen to be High Admiral of Iyanden's Navy, who saved his craftworld from Hive Fleet Kraken.

Pantheon

Cegorach

The Laughing God

The Eldar God of Trickery, he is the only member of the pantheon to make it through the birth of Slaanesh alive, intact, and unimprisoned (Khaine and Isha also survived, but the former is shattered into pieces scattered across the Craftworlds and the latter imprisoned by Nurgle). He schemes with his Harlequins to avenge the deaths of his brethren and ensure the long-term survival of the Eldar race.

The Chessmaster: He helped to engineer the Second Fall and is currently plotting to revitalize his pantheon.
Cool Sword: He wields Laisa'drakh, the Deception of Emotions (the 98th Sword of Vaul) as he battles Slaanesh. It grants him near-complete resistance to psychic energy, but he unfortunately loses the blade on the battlefield.
Defiant to the End: At one point, the Dark Princess was about to kill him, and he still continued to deny her.
Discard and Draw: Discarded his Domain in the Warp for making one in the Webway, which allowed him to escape Slaanesh.
Enemy Mine: Has no problem in helping the Imperium achieve its objective to raze Commorragh, since it gives him the chance to finally end Slaanesh.
Laser-Guided Karma: Gets to inflict this on Slaanesh, as the escapee of the pantheon the Dark Princess so voraciously devoured managed to kill her.
Laughing Mad: Joke aside, Cegorach laughs himself silly after Taylor and Aurelia create Atharti together. He then praises / complains about the pair's joke trumping anything he did.
Let's Get Dangerous!: With the events of Commorragh presenting an opportunity, he personally went to fight Slaanesh, the freaking Doom of the Aeldari that devoured almost everyone in his pantheon, on his own.
Monster Clown: He's the Eldar god for these.
Super-Empowering: What he did to Karsaq El'Uriaq and Aurelia Malys, turning them into incubators for newborn deities. He offered the same deal to Lelith Hesperax, but she refused.
Takes One to Kill One: Slaanesh boasts no one can kill her since only a true god would be able to destroy another god. Unfortunately for her, Cegorach was right there, and all too eager to commit the deed.
Trickster God: A deity of lies and plotting. Still, he can be direct as proved by his Let's Get Dangerous! moment.

Khaine

Khaela Mensha Khaine

The Eldar God of War, he survived the apotheosis of Slaanesh but was crippled in the process. Shattered into approximately a thousand pieces and scattered across various Eldar settlements, he can only be roused through great sacrifice by his worshippers.

Blood Knight: Received the Bloody Handed curse for his excessive love of slaughter.
Killed Off for Real: Creates a super-Avatar from 666 of his thousand fragments, which is destroyed by Taylor and Aurelia.
Red Baron: Khaela Mensha, or "Bloody Handed"
Red Right Hand: Known as the Bloody Handed because of a curse placed on him by Asuryan that makes his hands always drip with the blood of his latest victims.

Isha

The Eldar Goddess of Healing and Fertility, she survived the birth of Slaanesh by fleeing into Nurgle's garden.

Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Implied by a record left behind by Sliscus. All the original Eldar gods were created to support the war effort against the C'Tan somehow. So her healing wounds and helping mothers wasn't necessarily out of love, but because treating the wounded allows them to return to the front, and bringing more Eldar into the world means bringing more future troops into the world. The flesh-crafting arts of Commorragh were derived from her blessings.
Implicit Prison: The door to her "cell" is not locked, and she can leave at any time without Nurgle or its children trying to stop her. But both she and Nurgle know that if she ever does leave Nurgle's realm, she'd be attacked by one of the other Warp powers within the hour, and is no longer strong enough to fend them off. Because of this, she doesn't dare to try to escape.
Seeking Sanctuary: As she fled into Nurgle's realm voluntarily, she is technically its guest and protectorate, not its prisoner. This distinction is the reason why she remains in Nurgle's realm after Weaver claims the Eldar throne and forces the Chaos Gods to return all of the Aspects of the Eldar Gods that they had claimed for themselves.

Spoiler Characters

Atharti

The fledgling Aeldari Goddess of Pleasure and Seduction, she is created from a severed and purified shard of Slaanesh and implanted in Aurelia Malys to incubate.

Canon Immigrant: She originates from Warhammer Fantasy.
Decomposite Character: Cegorach wants for her to take over Isha's "fertility" aspect, as the Eldar race could really use more babies.
Embodiment of Virtue: Her domains include Symbiosis, Passion, Moderation, and Harmony alongside her original Carnality.
Love Goddess: Her first domain is Seduction and Sexual Pleasure, so she's very much oriented towards the "lust" aspect of one.
Redeeming Replacement: She's intended to be born from Slaanesh's Carnality aspect, but unlike the Dark Princess, Atharti aims to help the Eldars.

Addaioth

The fledgling Aeldari God of Wrath, he is created from a severed and purified shard of Slaanesh and implanted in Karsaq El'Uriaq to incubate.

Ambition Is Evil: The purified Shard currently incubating him is Vainglory, and his wielder intends to restore the Aeldari Empire through bloodbath and conquest.
Butt-Monkey: During the fight on the Vengeful Spirit, he gets casually smacked around by Taylor multiple times, and eventually ends up getting sold to Abaddon.
Canon Immigrant: Just like Atharti, he was a creation of Warhammer Fantasy.
Decomposite Character: In-Universe, his growing cult starts as a more violent derivative of Khaine's worship. And Khaine's worship is pretty violent to begin with...
Jerkass Gods: His portfolio includes wrath and murder, does it sound like a Nice Guy to you?
Mark of the Beast: When he and Karsaq refuse to bow to Taylor, she curses them and their followers with dark skin and vibrant orange hair, so everyone who sees them know what they have done.

The Necrons

Trazyn

Trazyn The Infinite Collector, Overlord of Solemnace, Acting Triarch of the Necrons

Amicable Exes: Downplayed, but he's trying to be respectful and not too infuriating with Neferten, since they were lovers at the time of the War in Heaven, and, currently, she is pretty much the only Necron leader that is willing to tolerate him.
Badass Boast: When faced with Lelith, Trazyn gives a pretty solid boast about what he has seen and survived. It's impressive enough that Lelith gets a little excited for a moment.
Berserk Button: Do not threaten Trazyn's collection if you value your life or freedom.
Beware the Silly Ones: Trazyn is a Large Ham and obsessed by his collection to the point he will leave you alone if sufficiently bribed. He's also armed with the typical Necron terrifying weaponry and at a moment's notice can pull out armaments from the War in Heaven.
- When he confronts Orikan, he starts out with his usual cheerful attitude. Learning that the Diviner has arranged for the Throne of Oblivion to pay a visit to Neferten, Weaver, and most importantly for him, Solemnace, he immediately breaks a millennia-long oath not to use the Silent King's command codes and immediately reduces Orikan to a mindless state.
- When discussing how to distract the Throne of Oblivion, Trazyn improves Weaver's proposal of throwing Arrgard the Defiler's WAAAGH against the Throne of Oblivion with a few simple suggestions, handily increasing the expected time gained from one or two human years to a whopping twelve standard years. When Neferten points out that the Throne could simply use its FTL drive to escape, Trazyn cheerfully proposes sabotage like it's a walk in the park, shocking Weaver and Neferten.
- To help buy time for Weaver to prepare, Trazyn sabotages the Throne's FTL drive, leaves a horde of malware in its systems, and re-programs the Replication Engines to create millions of deranged, murderous copies of himself. The "Trazyn Apocalypse" is barely prevented.
- Taylor actually pointed out the true proof of how dangerous he is shortly after first meeting him: He's an annoying kleptomaniac who is tens of millions of years old. Given how readily he makes enemies, if he was easy to kill, someone would have done it by now.
Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Definitely gives out this image. Doesn't make him any less dangerous.
Driven to Madness: Downplayed; he already was eccentric when he still was a flesh being, but the trauma of being converted into living metal and the ensuing eons without need to rest didn't help his sanity.
Everyone Has Standards: Possesses a few of the Silent King's command codes, but swore an oath not to use them to directly control any Necron, feeling this would make him too similar to the Deceiver. Orikan pisses him off enough that he breaks the oath.
Friendly Rival: He presents himself like this to Orikan, who most certainly doesn't share the sentiment.
The Friend Nobody Likes: Everyone he dubs a good friend of him actually dreams of dumping him into highly corrosive acid and banish the remnants of his soul to the Warp — partly because he's a xeno abomination, but mainly because he's an unrepentant kleptomaniac with a grating personality.
Oh, Crap!: when Orikan tells him he has contacted the Throne of Oblivion, Trazyn's first reaction is absolute terror.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Trazyn immediately stops joking when confronted to the Queen of Blades, later advising Taylor to run away immediately from Lelith. The Throne of Oblivion elicits the same sentiment, immediately leaving the unguarded Necron tomb of Gheden to immediately warn Neferten and Weaver.
Related in the Adaptation: Trazyn reveals in his Badass Boast that he's Szarekh's first cousin.
Sticky Fingers: He cannot go anywhere without lifting something.
The Thing That Would Not Leave: Trazyn was... rather excited about all the items he got for his new "Commorragh Collection" and how jealous Szarekh would be. Once Neferten finally has enough of his ceaseless boasting and thunderous laughter, she has him teleported out of her World Engine.
Unstoppable Rage: Orikan drives him to this by revealing he's contacted the Throne of Oblivion and pointed it towards Neferten, Weaver, and Solemnace.
Unwanted Assistance: The gifts he sends Weaver tend to be precious and rather dangerous to own by virtue of being coveted by such lovely factions as the Aeldari or the Emperor's Children.

Neferten

Phaerakh-Cryptek Neferten

Arch-Enemy: The Silent King, whose grand Bio-Transference plans she opposed. While at the moment part of her code forces her to submit to his authority, one of the purposes behind her alliance with Weaver is to reclaim enough Necron authority codes to give him the slip for good.
Benevolent Boss: Unlike many of her fellow Phaerons, Neferten prefers to rule by acclamation. She treats her subordinates well, is willing to hear their ideas and concerns out, and accepts (constructive) criticism from them.
Big "WHAT?!": Gives one to her subordinates in Ovation 9-3 when they tell her Taylor obtained the coordinates of the Throne of Oblivion.
Emperor Scientist: As a Cryptek, she's basically the Necron equivalent of a Tech-Priest - and not just any Tech-Priest, but an Archmagos at that, having mastered harsh disciplines such as elemental transmogrification and dimensional dissonance. As Phaerakh, she's the absolute ruler of her dynasty. Trazyn himself noted that unlike most Dynasties, where the Phaeron/Phaerakh is reliant on their Crypteks to handle technology in their stead, the Nerushlatset Dynasty has Neferten teaching her subordinate Crypteks the tricks of the trade instead.
Enemy Mine: She's ready to help Weaver to destroy Commorragh out of Fantastic Racism against the Drukhari, and suggests to point the Imperial Guard towards Tomb Worlds controlled by dynasties she opposes (which are ones that are into the Kill All Humans belief).
I Gave My Word: Trazyn assures Weaver that Neferten never went back on her oaths, and would respect a truce as long as Weaver does the same.
Ignored Expert: The Triarchy refused to consider her proposed solutions to cure the Necrontyr's debilitating weakness in favor of selling their whole race to the C'tan instead. Neferten is quite salty over it.
I Just Want to Be Free: She outright plots to rid herself from her ingrained loyalty to the Silent King, and is ready to ally with Taylor in order to achieve this.
Reasonable Authority Figure: She's one of the few Necron leaders willing to work with humanity, even if temporarily, to achieve a common objective.
Robot Girl: And not very happy about it.
Vain Sorceress: She tirelessly worked on her necrodermis until it almost perfectly mimicked flesh, though to be fair, she didn't want to go through biotransference.
Working with the Ex: She and Trazyn were lovers before enduring the biotransference. It means she's ready to tolerate his quirks more than many in the galaxy, but she still occasionally threatens to destroy his collections if he irks her too much.
Worthy Opponent: She did respect the Aeldari she fought in the War in Heaven, but is nothing short of disgusted by their descendents whom she refuses to call true Aeldari.
- Similarly, she respects humanity because, unlike pretty much every other important spacefaring civilization (even the Necrons themselves), they got where they are on their own strength of will while others had the help of a precursor species, and they keep expanding in a galaxy full of things that keep trying to kill them. Of course, the fact that they may be descended from one of her creations also factors in her opinion.

Szarekh the Silent King

Hero of Another Story: Wandering in the darkness outside of the Galaxy, he's been battling the Tyranids. However, the attacks are growing in ferocity to the point even his Star Reaper (a ship that regularly destroys entire star systems and even the Old Ones feared) and his fleet are at risk, so he's turning around and making preparations to end the Great Sleep.
Know When to Fold 'Em: Szarekh decided to stop fighting the Tyranids while he was still winning rather than keep going until they overwhelmed him with their numbers.
Off Screen Moment Of Awesome: He and his forces have been battling the Tyranids in the intergalatic void, and it is implied that his ships have already taken out several Hive Fleets. A single Hive Fleet being enough to cut a swath of destruction through large sections of the galaxy, leaving nothing but dead worlds scoured of life.

Orikan the Diviner

Death of Personality: Trazyn reduces his cognitive ability to that of a rank and file Necron soldier.
Seers: He's one of the greatest Necron Chronomancers. Unfortunately, the byzantine plans he'd woven crashed into oblivion with the destruction of Commorragh, leaving him foaming at the mouth at Trazyn.
Small Role, Big Impact: He features in a single scene, in which he reveals he's done something horrible enough for Trazyn to immediately mindwipe him.
Time Travel: Apparently, he tried to use his chronomancy to undo the events of Commorragh; despite his insistence, Trazyn can plainly see he simply can't.
Villainous Breakdown: Apparently the events at Commorragh were unfathomably devastating to his plans. Trazyn is actually impressed with how furious Orikan is.

Sobekhotep

Overlord Sobekhotep the Dust-Maker

The short-tempered commander of the Throne of Oblivion.

Arc Villain: He's the main antagonist of arcs 9 and 10, which focus on Taylor's attempts to destroy the Throne of Oblivion before he can use it to devastate Nyx.
Berserk Button: Trazyn becomes one for him after he sabotages the Throne of Oblivion's Star Drive and Replicator Forges. Upon learning from a subordinate that Trazyn outranks him due to a technicality, Sobekhotep goes on a screaming tirade against Trazyn.
Sobekhotep: [Trazyn] IS NOT A TRIARCH-ELECT! HE IS A PARVENU, AN UPSTART, AND A SECESSIONIST! OUR MIGHTY SILENT KING NEVER RECOGNISED HIM, AND ALL THE NOBLE DYNASTIES OF IMPORTANCE NEVER WILL!
Hair-Trigger Temper: He is extremely prone to fits of anger and the even the most minute of inconveniences is enough to set him off on a rant. During the Battle of Mandragora, it's noted by Ah-hotep that this sort of behavior is not normal for Sobekhotep and is a indicator that he's turning into a Destroyer Lord.
Red Baron: Earned the title of Dust-Maker due to his talent for reducing Aeldari worlds to tiny particles during the War in Heaven.
The Social Darwinist: He denies that the Flayer Curse is real and insists that the Flayed Ones are just Necrons whose infections were caused by them being too "weak".
Villainous Breakdown: As more and more things go wrong for him during the Battle of Mandragora, Sobekhotep loses it and begins screaming out his orders while shooting any subordinates who bring him bad news dead with his annihilation beam. Upon discovering that the Invaders have boarded the Throne and stopped his bombardment of Mandragora, he goes completely insane and transforms into a Destroyer Lord before releasing Mag'ladroth the Void Dragon onto Mandragora, uncaring that the C'Tan shard will simply destroy everything in its path.
You Have Failed Me: Already questioning the Sautekh Dynasty's loyalty, Sobekhotep fires a Nova Reaper cannon on Mandragora (destroying Sautekh and Imperium alike) as soon as the Battle of Mandragora is no longer going in their favor.

Sneferka

Master Cryptek Sneferka

Red Baron: Is the self-proclaimed "Master of Despair".
Servile Snarker: To Sobekhotep.
Verbal Tic: Whenever he talks, he starts out with a "Hem, hem, hem."

Zahndrekh

Overlord Zahndrekh

Ruler of the Tombworld of Gidrim, he suffered from a malfunction during the Great Sleep. As a result, he thinks that he (and virtually everyone else) is a pre-biotransference Necron from the Wars of Seccession. This has not diminished his abilities as a warleader.

Beware the Silly Ones: He may be senile, but he's still a Four-Star Badass. Before Operation Stalingrad, he had only been bested by five people, and the only one who hadn't been killed before the Great Sleep was the Queen of Blades. The Great Sleep hasn't diminished his skill at commanding troops one bit.
Obfuscating Stupidity: Possibly. It hasn't been determined in-story, but if he is anything like the 40k canon, he is faking his supposed senility/malfunction, and is completely aware of what has happened and that he is fighting other species. However, it's safer to be "useful but senile", particularly in the rather cut-throat cold war between Necron dynasties.
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: He managed to wrestle one of Sobekhotep's C'tan shards within its Tesseract prison when it's freed by Taylor's commando. Not bad for an old dude that mentally lives in the wrong era.
Scatterbrained Senior: After waking up from the Great Sleep, he's firmly mired in the delusion that he's fighting Necrontyr opposed to the Great Unification. This is a reason why he's Weaver's favored candidate to become the new Sautekh Phaeron — he's too senile to be genuinely a threat to the Imperium.
Token Good Teammate: One of the most genuinely honourable Necrons. Weaver wants for him to become the new Sautekh Phaeron because he's not liable to exterminate humans.
Worthy Opponent: As a side effect of his thinking that all his non-C'Tan opponents are rebellious Necrontyr rather than inferior races, he insists on treating them according to the ancient rules of war laid down by his race for internal conflicts rather than casually genociding everything in his path.

Imotekh

Overlord Imotekh the Stormlord

Ruler of the Tombworld of Mandragora, he is the highest ranked General of the Sautekh Dynasty.

Always Someone Better: Until he was awaken from the Great Sleep, Weaver had never suffered a genuine military defeat. He inflicts a Curb-Stomp Battle upon her forces and has her acknowledge the galaxy is bound to have a strategist smarter than herself.
Cluster F-Bomb: His (entirely understandable) reaction to learning that the Queen of Blades is still alive and has not mellowed with age.
Enemy Mine: He teams up with Weaver in order to battle the shard of Iash'uddra that is possessing the Second Primarch.
Four-Star Badass: The first person to actually defeat one of Weaver's forces as opposed to merely forcing a costly victory.
Properly Paranoid: He refuses to believe in Aenaria Eldanesh's utter annihilation until the Aeldari's corpse is laid at his feet. Guess what? She's still alive.
Red Baron: The Stormlord.
"Wanted!" Poster: He issued the first known bounty in history during the War in Heaven, against the Queen of Blades. Sixty million years later, the bounty is still unclaimed.
You Have Failed Me: Prone to executing subordinates for incompetence (actual incompetence, at that, not just the other guy being genuinely better).

C'Tan

Iash'uddra

The Endless Swarm

One of the C'Tan and the first Endbringer Taylor faces in the story.

Demonic Possession: One of his shards does this to the Second Primarch for 5,000 years.
Evil Gloating: Says he was the one responsible for the Destroyer Curse.
Starter Villain: The first major opponent Taylor has to fight in the 40K Verse.
Stupid Evil: Takes time to murder Taylor's 3 Dawnbreaker Guard members first which only empowers her Sacrifice aspect.
Unskilled, but Strong: Can control large number of Canoptek insects, but Taylor proves more effective at controlling them.

Hsiagn'la

The Frosthell, The Voidsong

One of the C'Tan and in a tenative alliance with Neferten and maybe Taylor.

An Ice Person: Its Core Powerset.
Affably Evil: By the standards of its fellow C'tan shards. It's willing to enter an alliance with Necrons and humans (even if only tentatively and temporarily), and when it speaks to Taylor, it remains cordial and polite.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Casually brushes aside Be'lakor when meeting with Taylor on Tau.
Mr. Exposition: Reveals that the Flayer Curse caused the AI Revolt, that Be'lakor was the first Drukhari, and that the Tyranids were a failed experiment of the Old Ones alongside others which embodied concepts related to the Chaos Gods.
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Pulls this against The Throne of Oblivion for a whole 2 hours before being recaptured.

The Orks

Brukk Brukk

Uber-Mekboy Brukk 'X-Rock' Brukk/Super-Mekboy Brukk X-Brukk/Smartboy X-Brukk

Fight Magnet: Every Boss he's attached himself to has gotten attacked by Weaver. Knowing the Orks, if they ever figured this out, they'd probably consider it a point in his favor.
Foreshadowing: As soon as news of a new Ork fleet arrives to help fight the Ymga Monolith, he gets a vision supposedly from Gork and Mork that shows a massive amount of Orks gathering around a planet and having a brutal, unlimited WAAGH. When the Ymga Monotlith telports away to Mandragora, Arrgard orders his fleet to follow it and for every Warboss in the galaxy to be called to come join the fight.
Gut Feeling: At Mandragora, Brukk Brukk can feel it when Weaver has arrived at the same fight as him.
Know When to Fold 'Em: The reason he's survived four rounds with Weaver is because he's smart enough to know when the battle is lost and it's time for him to flee and find a new warband.
Rank Up: Every time he fights Weaver's army and survives, he ends up in a more important position in his next warband.
Tim Taylor Technology: He's an Ork MekBoy. The stuff he builds is this at best, and total junk that only works because the WAAAGH effect makes it work at worst.
Unknown Rival: As of the Black Crusade Arc, he's served in four different Ork warbands that Weaver has fought, but she doesn't even know that he exists — they've never actually met, and Taylor's literally fought billions of Orks, and only ever learned the names of the prominent Warbosses leading them.

Chaos Gods

Tzeentch

Cannibalism Superpower: Tzeentch consumes Slaanesh's Aspect of Paramountcy after the God's demise to empower itself and assimilate authority over the Aspect and Aeldari souls.
Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Can't kill Taylor on Tau due to how unstable reality is and would run the risk of it completely breaking down.
Didn't See That Coming: Strongly implied when the assault on Commorragh starts – all of its troops suddenly shut up then retreat in disorder.
Gone Horribly Wrong: An excerpt from Aurelia Malys in Extermination Interlude 2 explains that a proto-deity of Change was created by the Old Ones during the War in Heaven to combat the C'tan. Obviously, this deity became corrupted by the War and the C'tan and became the first Chaos God, Tzeentch, whose very existence allowed the formation of other Chaos Gods born from the War in Heaven and beyond.
Hypocrite: Tzeetch is a God of Change, and loves change of all kinds. Yet it hates the change that was brought on by the Crusade on Commarragh, as it cannot use it to its advantage.
Kill the Messenger: Averted. It just horribly mutates them instead.
Know When to Fold 'Em: Decides to leave Slaanesh to its ruin and focus on figuring out a new path after the Shadowpoint.
Let No Crisis Go to Waste: Joins in on the pileup on Slaanesh when it becomes obvious that the youngest of the Chaos Gods is going to permanently lose a lot of its power.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain:
- Its ritual was the one that brought Weaver into the 35th Millenium, giving her the opportunity to become one of the greatest heroes of the Imperium and rally the galaxy against the Tyranids.
- It was the one that created the Shadowpoint covering Nyx and Pavia during the leadup to Operation Caribbean. It did not expect the Emperor to actually empower the Shadowpoint to prevent the agents of Chaos from realizing what was going to happen before it was too late.
- Intentional or not, its cancelling of a Warp storm during the raid on Commorragh frees the Flamewrought so the Emperor can guide it to deliver a critical blow against Slaanesh's forces in the Dark City.
The Older Immortal: A future excerpt from Aurelia Malys details the discovery that Tzeentch is the first Chaos God, created by the Old Ones during the War in Heaven. This is reflected in his Sacred Number of Nine, as the birth of a new Chaos God has them take the next number as theirs (i.e. Eight, Seven, Six), all counting down to some unspecified end that the Emperor refers to as "awaken[ing] the eight-pointed star".
Out-Gambitted: It is implied that the Emperor planned for Tzeentch to attempt to assimilate the Paramountcy Aspect because he expected Taylor to reclaim it later, damaging the Chaos God.
Stunned Silence: Shocked by the Imperium breaching the Webway in order to unleash extermination upon Commorragh, Tzeentch doesn't even react to Khorne's mockery.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: The Weaver Option was its idea, making everything Taylor does to stop Chaos its fault.

Khorne

The Bad Guy Wins: He is arguably the winner of the Tyranny arc, as least where the forces of Chaos are concerned. Apart from preventing the ascension of the King in Yellow to Master of Eternity, which is a massive victory for everyone opposing the King, good or evil, Khorne gains a powerful new Nephilim Queen through the ascension of Lotarra Sarin to Valkia, a being powerful enough to rival Taylor. And through Valkia's ascension, Khorne gains ultimately gains control of the Calyx Hell Stars.
Cannibalism Superpower: Defied. Unlike the other Chaos Gods, Khorne doesn't decide to assimilate one of Slaanesh's surviving Aspects to gain authority over it and Aeldari souls. Instead, Khorne has the Aspect of Excess captured and imprisoned at Its Brass Citadel in the Warp, planning to keep it there until it starves itself out of existence due to a lack of souls.
Dissonant Laughter: Its reaction to Weaver assaulting Commorragh is to start howling with mirth, both relishing the imminent slaughter and mocking Tzeentch's gigantic miscalculation.
Let No Crisis Go to Waste: Slaanesh is so busy panicking over Commorragh's assault, it almost empties its realm of legions. Khorne immediately seizes the opportunity to strike at the other god, who's currently weakened and distracted.
The Chessmaster: Outplays the other gods by not assimilating Slaanesh's shard so that he won't be weakened, and also using Khaine as a trap in order to negotiate for one of the most violent Dark Muses who is the Queen of Blades' former apprentice.
The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: It unleashes a preemptive strike on Slaanesh partly because the Dark Prince intends to kill Weaver, and Khorne really wants her skull for itself.
Villain Respect: Implied; in spite (or perhaps because) of Weaver kicking the shit out of Ka'Bandha, her assault on Commorragh leads Khorne to burst out laughing.
- Allows her to live on Tau for there to be more bloodshed from her battles and have a rematch with Ka'Bandha.
- He also sends Khârn the Betrayer and Lotarra Sarrin to kill Erebus at the Battle for Macragge, the former of whom genuinely compliments the defenders for the great victory they have achieved in bringing about the destruction of Erebus, while also sending Taylor a warning for a future meeting.

Nurgle

Berserk Button: Papa Nurgle isn't happy when it realizes someone else is controlling its bugs and as such preventing it from spreading his plagues.
- Also not happy about Weaver claiming the Earth Caste that he wanted.
Cannibalism Superpower: Nurgle takes Slaanesh's Aspect of Gluttony for itself after the God's death, granting it power and authority over the Aspect and Aeldari souls.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: "Love" might be a strong word for an insane Chaos God, but he allowed Isha to hide in his Garden, calling her his "dear".
Let No Crisis Go to Waste: Takes advantage of Slaanesh's distraction over Commorragh to join the pileup on it, even sending the ship that keeps Fulgrim's soul prisoner into the Warp so Slaanesh cannot create another Primarch to lead the Emperor's Children.
Mood-Swinger: Can go from howling rage to saccharine cheerfulness in the blink of an eye. Isha finds this deeply unsettling.
No-Nonsense Nemesis: Immediately advocates for killing Weaver when given the opportunity, only to be stopped by Khorne and Tzeentch allowing her to live out of pragmatism.
Not Me This Time: The Aeldari first believed Taylor was Nurgle's Champion because of her insect-control.
Tantrum Throwing: Following the Oblivion war, Nurgle has a screaming fit over the fact that Weaver just won't stop winning and that's unfair.

Slaanesh

Achilles' Heel: Most of its power stems from the Dark Eldar and those they torture, which means anything that significantly weakens the Drukhari disproportionately weakens it. Part of the reason why the other Ruinous Powers can't be targeted like it was, stems from the fact that the other three have a more diversified powerbase and thus cannot be critically weakened by an attack at a single location, no matter how powerful.
Ambiguous Gender: 8.5 notes that assigning a gender to Slaanesh is difficult in ordinary circumstances, but for the moment it can be considered female as it's occupying a female Eldar host body.
Berserk Button: Slaanesh hates when people deprive it from its rightful due – the souls it's using to empower itself.
Combat Pragmatist: Slaanesh may be insane, but even it knows better than to face Lelith in a swordfight after she'd dispatched multiple Daemon Princes. Instead, Slaanesh batters Lelith with sorcery from a distance, a field of combat that was never her strength.
Demonic Possession: Is able to physically enter Commorragh due to possessing the body of a female Eldar sacrificed to Slaanesh when the Chaos God was still forming, kept in stasis until it was needed.
Did Not Think This Through:
- Sending so many of its legions to Commorragh diverts more of its inhabitants from fighting Taylor by forcing them to fight its legions. And then, because it's weakening from the lost souls and has been sending away so many of its forces, Khorne takes the opportunity to launch a preemptive strike on it before the battle is even over.
- When Slaanesh breached Khaine's Gate, it was corrupted and damaged so badly that it can't be closed. This would be fine as the daemonic hordes captured the surrounding nodes — except that the Imperium brings in a Blackstone Fortress capable of firing a blast that will travel across the Webway and through the Gate, right into Slaanesh's throne.
Killed Off for Real: Getting shot twice by the Will of Eternity's Anathema-empowered gun renders it weak enough that Cegorach can separate it into its main aspects, in such a way that its restoration will be impossible without the help of another Chaos God. The fact that the other Gods (and Cegorach) take its remains for their own use ensures it won't come back.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: During the Commorragh Raid, her decisions and actions end up benefitting the Imperium and backfiring on her.
- Sending the majority of her Legions of Excess to attack Commorragh through Khaine's Gate forcefully divides the Dark Eldar attention in two fronts, making it easier for the Human-Necron alliance to continue their attack.
- This also causes the other Chaos Gods to attack her, which means they are sending their forces somewhere not in the Materium and keeping them busy for some time.
- Corrupting billions of Dark Eldar gives her a temporary boost, but it also makes those Eldar vulnerable to the anti-Empyrean bombs Asdrubael Vect has emplaced all over Commorragh.
- The corruption she has spread also forces the Asuryani come to aid the Drukhari to stop using sorcery, depriving them of their most powerful weapon.
- Sending millions of demons at Lelith and Taylor saves the latter from a likely death, as the Aeldari greatly surpasses her in everything about sword fighting, and forces the two women to collaborate at some degree.
- Sending Malekith, Urien Rakarth and Morathi Uldanesh to attack them leads to Lelith acknowledging Taylor as the Aeldari Empress and then permanently killing the latter two.
- Finally, going into the field to attempt to personally kill Taylor only sets her up to get killed herself by Cegorach after the Imperium hits her with an Anathema-empowered Blackstone Fortress' main gun.
Numerological Motif: The number Six repeats constantly throughout Slaanesh's forces and behaviors, which stems from the core of its being: Six essences born from the Aeldari Empire's debauchery, fused into a single being.
Oh, Crap!: Slaanesh completely loses its shit when Weaver's assault on Commorragh potentially opens the way for a paradox which would leave the Prince of Pleasure permanently weakened, possibly even enough for the other Ruinous Powers to finish it off for good.
Pieces of God: Slaanesh consists of six essences bound together: Avidity, Gluttony, Carnality, Paramountcy, Vainglory, and Excess. Cegorach is able to sever these essences from one another and they are scattered across the Warp, four claimed by the Chaos Gods and two by Cegorach. Cegorach later implants the purified fragments of Carnality and Vainglory into Aurelia Malys and Karsaq El'Uriaq, respectively, to nurture the Aspect into becoming new Aeldari Gods.
Ponzi Scheme: The Chaos Gods can take advantage of the Warp's fluid relation with reality to feed from souls that technically they haven't claimed or haven't even been born. However, the big caveat is that the possibility of claiming those souls must never become zero, lest the entire system collapse. When Taylor's attack cripples Commorragh, the vast bulk of Slaanesh's power begins evaporating as all of a sudden the Dark Eldar never managed to enslave and murder the countless souls fueling Slaanesh. Sure, it gets the dying Drukhari souls, but not only they are far, far less than the number of their victims in potentia, they are disgusting, shrivelled things that Slaanesh can barely stomach.
Powered by a Forsaken Child: The final ritual which brought about Slaanesh's birth consumed sixty-five Eldar infants, with a sixty-sixth preserved to act as a potential Avatar for the god.
Stupid Evil: Slaanesh never considered an alliance with the Drukhari against the human army slaughtering everything in the Webway, instead killing the Aeldari in spite of its very survival relying on them.
- It does eventually corrupt a good portion of the Drukhari... though probably far too late for it to help that much.
Tempting Fate: Slaanesh declares only a true god can match it. Cegorach, a true god, uses a blade crafted by the god Vaul to destroy Slaanesh's core. The other Chaos Gods then steal Slaanesh's fragments, ensuring it cannot reform.
There's No Kill like Overkill: Sending all of its daemonic legions to Commorragh in order to kill Weaver? Yup, definitely.
We Can Rule Together: Its demons invite the most powerful Drukhari to join willingly and become powerful Daemons. Some accept, such as Rakarth, while many die fighting.
The Worf Effect: Despite being weakened by the destruction of the Drukhari and the further weakening of manifesting through a mortal avatar, Slaanesh easily dominates its fight against Lelith, who had previously defeated semi-divine beings with ease.

Malal/Malice

Anarchy Is Chaos: Malal seeks to bring anarchy to all things, eliminating anything that could be considered restrictive of "freedom", whether it be an authority figure, morality, religious icon, or familial bonds. The Skaven distil this into Eleven Forms of Anarchy:
Festikt Warpwhisper: "THERE MUST-MUST BE ANARCHY IN MURDER! ANARCHY IN GENETICS! ANARCHY IN MACHINES! ANARCHY IN WARRIORS! ANARCHY IN SORCERY! ANARCHY IN JUSTICE! ANARCHY IN TRADE! ANARCHY IN KNOWLEDGE! ANARCHY IN FOOD! ANARCHY IN THE STARS! AND ANARCHY IN RELIGION! FOR ONLY WITH-WITH ANARCHY WILL WE DEFEAT-SLAY CHAOS!”
Cannibalism Superpower: Farseer Eldrad Ulthran believes it secretly took the Slaanesh Aspect of Avidity for itself after Slaanesh's demise.
Canon Immigrant: A two-parter:
- First there is his main worshippers, the Skaven, who are an exclusive race to the Warhammer Fantasy reality and do not appear in the 40k universe beyond some very early fluff before they got turned into the Hrud.
- The second is Malal/Malice himself, as while he exists in both 40k and Fantasy under each respective name, he didn't move past the very early fluff of Fantasy due to a copyright dispute, and hasn't been mentioned in 40k since the 3rd Edition, leading to doubts about whether he's still canon.
Chronic Backstabbing Disorder:
- His Skaven followers can barely work together, always backstabbing each other in the hopes of gaining Malal's favor. Knowing Malal's nature, it probably prefers it that way.
- Malicia explains that this nature is why Lorgar is so deadset on having a Black Crusade now and causing as much destruction as possible: A Black Crusade represents Chaos Undivided and as such requires an alliance of all Chaos gods. If, and when, the Skaven take Sicarus or another planet of worship in the Eye of Terror, Malal will be elevated to the position of Fourth Chaos God. As Malal stands opposed to all of Chaos, this would pretty much ruin the chance of any future Black Crusades happening.
- Hell, he can't even work with himself - when Omegon is shown to be hearing Malal, he has tens of voices, all of which express conflicting orders and desires.
Composite Character: Being the object of worship for the Skaven notwithstanding, it is subtly suggested by Malicia by calling Malal "the Horned God" that it will be sharing a few traits with the Great Horned Rat.
Enemy Mine: Decides to have the only remaining Clan Eshin Skaven ally with Corvus Corax to kill Lorgar.
The Friend Nobody Likes: None of the other Chaos Gods like him, especially after he becomes the Fourth Chaos God. The biggest reasons are that A) he's viewed as an upstart, B) he is not bound by any of their rules regarding how to interact with reality, and C) Malal opposes all of the other gods first and foremost, and thus encourages his followers to attack other Chaos forces, meaning his existence is actively detrimental to Chaos' goal of taking over the Materium.
Godhood Seeker: Malal is a powerful Warp being that is actively seeking to become a full Chaos God. It succeeds by coopting Lorgar's ritual during the Fifth Black Crusade.
Numerological Motif: 11, defying the trend of each new Chaos god having a sacred number that is one number lower than the previous ones. As such, the Skaven hold this number sacred instead of the one worshipped by their Fantasy counterparts, which is 13; one example is that their Council of Thirteen is instead the Council of Eleven. The Skaven also incorparte it with their beliefs in Eleven Forms of Anarchy.
Oxymoronic Being: Malal represents the ideal that Chaos, by its very nature, is self-destructive and does not think or plan; to Malal, the idea of Chaos gods and their followers planning and cooperating is antithesis to the idea of Chaos itself and therefore all other Chaos Gods are its enemies. Thus, it seeks the destruction of religion, as religion unites people together and therefore is the opposite of Chaos, even if that means that Malal himself will be destroyed, for he rejects the desire to be worshipped as a god. To Malal, True Chaos should only offer one thing: unparalleled freedom through anarchy to do whatever you want with no restrictions. To be free to be equally likely to backstab allies as you are to attack enemies, and not limit yourself to only a single branch of Chaos and acting in a certain way to curry favour with someone or some god. For Malal, performing Chaos freely and entirely to your own random whims, and not to any sort of plan, is pleasing enough even if, or especially if, your actions ends up spoiling another follower's ideas or "plans".
Unexpected Successor: The Skaven praise and pray to Malal as the "fifth god of Chaos",but come Extermination 8-5, Malal is now the foremost candidate for the title of Fourth Chaos God with the death of Slaanesh; something the other Chaos Gods aren't too happy about.
The Unfettered: The other Chaos Gods and their followers must obey certain laws and restrictions or risk destroying reality. Malal ignores these because Anarchy is bound by no laws. He also promotes this attitude with those he recruits.
Villain Respect: It shows itself rather polite when adressing Corvus Corax, accepting his offer of an alliance and lamenting the fact he's "wasting" his potential. Yes, Malal still betrays the dude later, but that's nothing personal, merely Malal following its nature.

Chaos Forces

Ezekyle Abaddon

Ezekyle Abaddon, the Despoiler, Warmaster of Chaos

The former First Captain of the Sons of Horus. Abaddon in the aftermath of the Siege of Terra reunited the scattered Sons of Horus and renamed them the Black Legion which soon grew into the mightiest of the Traitor Legions which has repeatedly threatened the Imperium in the form of the Black Crusades.

Adaptational Badass: Right from the moment he begins his conversation with Weaver, he immediately establishes himself as a dangerous, intelligent, and above all competent threat. And this is without him actually fighting. It's safe to say that this Abaddon is leagues above the "Fail-baddon" reputation that his canon self has obtained from the fans.
Affably Evil: His behavior towards Weaver and Malys during their encounter upon the Vengeful Spirit. He engages in perfectly civil discourse with them, remaining polite and even genuinely respectful towards them. He also never once attacks or even threatens them, and even stops Drachnyen and the other Chaos Space Marines in the vicinity from doing so when the Chaos Gods try to order them to kill Weaver. This behavior is further enforced during their negotiations when they divide Muses and Aspects amongst themselves, as he ensures that Weaver receives the Muses that they had agreed upon during their negotiations even when Chaos itself tries to violate the bargain.
Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Abaddon is one of the deadliest Space Marines (both loyal and Chaos) of all time. When wielding the Talon of Horus and the terrible demonic weapon Drach'nyen he is possibly the most powerful of all the Chaos Space Marines.
The Dreaded: One of the most feared beings in the Galaxy. Taylor is immediately on guard and wary when she meets him.
Evil Weapon: The Talon of Horus he uses was one of the prime weapons of the Arch Heretic Horus. Even that however pales in comparison to Drach'nyen which is such a horrifying weapon that Taylor can't even bear to look at it.
Noble Demon: Has shades of this, at least where Chaos standards are concerned. When he negotiates the divisions of Muses and Aspects between himself and Weaver, he ensures that Weaver gets the Muses that were promised to her even when Chaos itself tries to interfere and violate the bargain. The fact that he goes directly against Chaos' will to ensure this makes it clear that when he was speaking about balance and avoiding greed, he was no Hypocrite.
Pragmatic Villainy: He has several pragmatic reasons to keep Weaver alive and avoid openly engaging in conflict with her when she manifests on his flagship and is at his mercy, which include avoiding the trap of symbolically locking his legion into eternal conflict with the Blood Angels and making sure that she rids the universe of Lorgar, who he contemptuously regards as weak, foolish, and actively detrimental to Chaos' interests.
Reasonable Authority Figure: By Chaos standards, at least, which means he won't execute people for bringing him bad news or murder his subordinates when feeling frustrated. He is also perfectly willing to engage in civil discourse with his servants and enemies alike instead of just slaughtering them at will, although in Weaver's case this is motivated at least partially by pragmatism.
Villain Respect: He openly demonstrates his respect towards Weaver during their encounter both for her accomplishments and for her personality, a respect that Weaver reluctantly returns.

Ka'Bandha the Angel's Bane

Ka'Bandha, the Angel's Bane, is one of the most infamous Bloodthirsthers that serve the Chaos God Khorne, After facing Taylor Hebert and being banished, he has sworn that he will be the one to kill her and claim her skull, as such is considering the Second Endbringer.

Arch-Enemy: Thanks to his battle against Weaver, Ka'Bandha becomes the Second Endbringer, one of the Living Saint's nemeses.
The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Ka'Bandha considers Taylor Hebert to be his prey and vows that he will be the one to take her skull, so he will destroy anyone who tries to get in the way.
Worf Had the Flu: Ka'Bandha was not at full strength at the Death Star due to the rushed nature of his summoning. Seeing how powerful an actual Daemon Prince is while fighting Be'lakor, Taylor comes to the ugly realization that the next time she fights the Angel's Bane it will be a far harder fight.

Lorgar

Lorgar, Primarch of Word Bearers

Lorgar Aurelian or the Urizen is the Primarch of the Word Bearers, one of the original twenty Space Marine Legions and later the first to fall into Chaos. In the aftermath of the destruction of Commorragh, he brings Chaos around him to form the Fifth Black Crusade, with the aim of killing Weaver.

All for Nothing: All his plots to kill Weaver and bring Slaanesh back end up in ashes as not only is Malal ascended to become the Fourth Chaos God, he himself is turned into a Chaos Spawn. The other Three revive him so he will kill Roboute Guilliman, but Weaver's intervention leads to his final death to a revived Roboute.
Berserk Button: It should be said that the attack of the Skaven on Sicarius and also the death of Slaanesh was not to the liking of Lorgar, such was his anger that he mortally wounded his closest "followers", Kor Phaeron and Erebus, which one of his Dark Apostles points out is not a good sign.
Burning the Ships: Sacrifices Sicarus to the Chaos Gods so they will restore Slaanesh back, knowing that such a move will destroy the Word Bearers if the Fifth Black Crusade fails.
Crazy-Prepared: His plan for the Crusade, especially when it comes to his personal safety, has multiple backups and cut-offs to prevent a single problem becoming a full disaster. Most notable is his preparation to summon a Greater Daemon of Nurgle. The initial plan is to use a specially prepared ship which is destroyed by Eldar; the second plan is to use a secret ritual site which had been subverted by other forces. While Magnus initially assumed that was the end of his planning, Lorgar had a third ritual planned: Sacrificing Magnus.
Deader than Dead: After Guilliman finally kills him, Weaver shreds his soul, ensuring Chaos won't be able to get it for any reason.
Enemy Mine: Lorgar swears that he will personally kill Weaver, assembling a large army for a upcoming Black Crusade with that goal in mind.
Hypocrite: When he rages at Kor Phaeron for turning to Anarchy because the Three won't help, he states they are not supposed to question the intentions of gods and never worship false ones - ignoring the fact that he betrayed the Emperor after refusing to accept his orders and turned to Chaos.
Morton's Fork: According to Malicia, Slaanesh's death and the release of the Skaven onto Sicarius have put him in one. Either he risks everything to put the genie back in the bottle (which means rushing the Black Crusade against the full force of the Imperium and the Throne of Oblivion) or face Malal/Anarchy becoming a full Chaos God (which would break the Word Bearers, as Malal is a threat to Chaos Undivided, the cornerstone of the Word Bearers' worship). Being a fanatic, Lorgar picked the former option.
Self-Serving Memory: Chapter 48 opens with Lorgar sending a message to Corax, boasting about how Corax has failed to kill him twice and is destined to lose again. Chapter 49 begins with Corax sending a message in reply, calling Lorgar an insane, cowardly idiot with a selective recollection of events.
Corax: [W]hen people come to remind you of the consequences of your treacherous deeds, your reaction is always the same. You flee. You say I have failed twice. I think you have somewhat edited your memories of our fights. In each case when you saw your death coming, the truth was revealed. When the time comes to choose between your survival and accomplishing the will of your so-called Gods, the former always takes priority.
You Have Failed Me: It only has to be said that Lorgar was not happy about the incompetence of the Dark Apostles, showing intense anger even at Kor Phaeron and Erebus.
- After Kor Phaeron nearly pledges himself to Anarchy, Lorgar — who was returned to human because The Three were that furious — summarily kills him himself.

Spoiler Character

Magnus the Red, Primarch of the Thousand Sons

Magnus the Red is the Primarch of the Thousand Sons Chaos Space Marine Legion and Daemon Primarch of the Chaos God Tzeentch. In the aftermath of Commorragh's destruction, he decides to leave his self-imposed isolation to join forces with his brother Lorgar in the Fifth Black Crusade.

Brought Down to Normal: Malal erases his psychic powers and undoes his transformation into a Daemon Primarch.
Curiosity Is a Crapshoot: The Aspect he inherited from the Emperor was his thirst for knowledge and understanding. Unfortunately, that was how the Chaos Gods manipulated him to their side.
Enemy Mine: He fights along with Leman Russ and Corvus Corax against Lorgar, Omegon, and the Naga.
Even Evil Has Standards: Being Tzeentch's Daemon Primarch, he was aware of the canon timeline and got to see how destructive the Tyranids are, something that immensely disturbs him.
Evil Genius: His intelligence is on full-display when he sends Corax a message in 10-3. Unlike the boasting of Lorgar, Magnus instead offers a thoughtful critique of the Imperium, the Emperor, and the ability of either to truly counter the daemons.
Fallen Hero: He, along with his brothers, was meant to be a leader and bring humanity into a new era of science, advancement and prosperity. Unfortunately, he became part of the half that fell to Chaos.
Fatal Flaw: Arrogance. According to Lotara Sarrin, Magnus remains just as arrogant as before his ascension to Daemon Prince.
The Not-So-Harmless Punishment: As part of his punishment for his actions, the Emperor sentences him to organizing his library. That is, the other library that has been an absolute mess for millenia.
Right-Hand Cat: Deliberately plays into the cliché with a Fenrisian Frostlion, just to needle his brothers.
Sarcasm Mode: Falls into this after losing his psychic powers and Taylor thinks it is a coping mechanism.
Sorcerous Overlord: One of the most powerful psykers in the galaxy, earning the title of Sorcerer King for his abilities.
This Cannot Be!: He proceeds to freak out when Malal forcibly turns Omegon into the Daemon Primarch of Anarchy and starts messing with the other Chaos Gods' plans, screaming that "there are rules".
Troll: Magnus doesn't interfere with Corax's rampage through the Black Crusade because he finds it far too amusing. He also later claims the main reason he accompanied the Crusade was that Lorgar's ritual was so massive and badly flawed, he had to be there to witness it fail in person.
Unexpected Character: No one expected the appearance of the Crimson King in the Fifth Black Crusade.
Villainous Valor: As Lorgar betrays him, Magnus doesn't rage at his brother. He simply attempts to fight back and, when this fails, throws a few barbs at the other Daemon-Primarch.

Lotara Sarrin

Lotara Sarrin, the Blood Rose, later known as Valkia, the Gore Queen

The Captain of the Conqueror, former flagship of the shattered World Eaters Legion. She is chosen to be Khorne's primary Champion in the Materium and ascended as Valkia the Gore Queen.

Arch-Enemy: Becomes this to Nagash following the Battle of the Calyx Hell Stars. Malicia almost feels sorry for the Primarch... Almost.
Ax-Crazy: Averted. Malicia worryingly notes that, unlike most Khornate champions, Valkia retains most of her cunning and strategic thinking, which makes her even deadlier than the norm.
Breast Expansion: Happens to her when she ascends into Valkia. It somewhat enhances her already beautiful deadly figure as the Gore Queen.
Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Psychopath's minder, anyway. She has to ride herd on a warband of berserkers lead by Kharn the Betrayer.
Klingon Promotion: Kills Angron to deny his power to the King in Yellow and fuel her own ascension.
Painful Transformation: Undergoes this upon becoming the Gore Queen in her ascension.
Worthy Opponent: Respects Malicia for being competent and able to stay focused on her actual objectives, something many Chaos warleaders aren't and can't.

Other Characters

Lord Cypher

Lord Cypher, Fallen Dark Angel

The Loremaster of the First Legion, who became the second highest ranked Dark Angel (after Luther) to have turned against their Primarch during the Horus Heresy. Now the most wanted man in the galaxy in the eyes of the former First Legion, he pursues his own agenda while hunted by the descendants of his former brothers.

Ambiguously Evil: While he clearly isn't on the side of the Imperium as an institution given that he was a key figure in the Nova-Terra Interregnum, he also doesn't appear to be intentionally working for any of the Ruinous Powers either. His ultimate agenda is a mystery.
Know When to Fold 'Em: Escapes Nova-Terra through the Webway one step ahead of the Dark Angels retaking the planet.
Legacy Character: Caliban tradition holds that Lord Cypher is a title, not a name, and the holder of that title forsakes his birthname upon assuming the title. Given that, it's entirely possible that the current Cypher is not the Cypher who Fell during the Heresy, even if he still identifies himself as a Fallen.
- Gavreel later confirms that there have been at least two Cyphers since the Heresy started, as Luther is suspected to have killed a previous, loyal Cypher to replace him with one of his cronies. However, it's strongly implied that that Cypher might not be the same as the current one.
Shrouded in Myth: The Dark Angels just won't stop wiping any information regarding him as it surfaces.
Stealth Hi/Bye: Very good at appearing and later disappearing without a trace.
Sue Donym: At one point calls himself Cy Pher. The main reason it works is because his name is not well known. The one person in the group he meets who does know of Cypher sees through the alias immediately.
"Wanted!" Poster: Taylor puts a 200 million Gelt price on his head, collectible only alive. The main purpose of this isn't to capture him (he's very good at not getting or staying captured), but to announce his existence to the galaxy in a way that the Dark Angels can't suppress.

Spoiler Character

Omegon, Primarch of the Alpha Legion, Daemon Primarch of Malal

One of the twin Primarchs of the 20th Legion, he was wounded and believed dead after a battle with Roboute Guilliman. In truth Omegon is alive, though in critical condition. After the failure of Lorgar's Black Crusade, Malal forcibly ascends him into a Daemon Primarch in order to get a foothold on the souls of the Alpha Legion.

Ambiguously Evil: While he appears to not be on the side of the Ruinous Powers, the complex scheming of the Alpha Legion in general makes it difficult to tell what side he is on. Given his refusal to affirm his oath of fealty to the God-Emperor when asked to in person, he clearly isn't on the side of the Imperium as an institution, either. In the end, his side is chosen for him, as Malal rips him out of his Dreadnought and forcibly converts him into the Daemon Primarch of Anarchy.
Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Upon becoming the Daemon Primarch of Malal, assuming one considers "ascend" and "higher" to be the correct choice of words for the process.
Complexity Addiction: He and his legion favor highly complex schemes that often don't show appreciable results for decades or centuries after their completion. This is part of the reason why it's so hard to tell what his overall objectives are.
Dark Lord on Life Support: While Guilliman didn't kill him, he came close. Thanks to severe phosphex burns, Omegon spends most of his time sleeping in a healing vat, only waking for a few minutes every few years to receive briefings from his First Harrowmaster and update the Legion's strategies. He is still able to fight if necessary, in a Primarch-sized Dreadnaught Armor.
Death Faked for You: The Alpha Legion has used Omegon's near-death to Guilliman to cover up the fact that he's actually still alive. Not everyone believes this, with Rogal Dorn having originally left the Imperium to verify his brother's death.
Hoist by His Own Petard: Under Omegon's command, the Alpha Legion has become increasingly chaotic in its behavior, with identifying their goal or allegiance being all but impossible. Unfortunately this has made them prime targets for Malal.
Redemption Rejection: Omegon communes with his father who offers him the chance to once again swear himself to the Imperium. Omegon balks at this as he feels he simply cannot trust the God-Emperor.
Villains Want Mercy: Despite betraying the God-Emperor to pursue his own agenda, Omegon still seeks his help when his legion is in danger of being corrupted by Malal.

Spoiler Character 2

The King in Yellow, later Nagash, the King of Bones, Primarch of the Witch Hunters

Once the Primarch of the Eleventh Legion, both he and his Legion were eradicated by the Space Wolves at the Emperor's orders for unspecified crimes during the Great Crusade. Unfortunately, he didn't stay dead. Thanks to Malicia disturbing the resting place of his deceased Legion in the Calyx Expanse, he has awakened and seeks to be a power in his own right.

A God Am I: Unlike Lorgar who merely sought to be the High Priest of a God, the Eleventh wished to be a god in his own right. And he's become powerful enough that he can openly defy the Three and Malal in their presence and survive.
Back from the Dead: Leman Russ killed him personally and delivered the corpse to the Custodes. But he appears to not have stayed dead.
Canon Immigrant: the Warhammer 40k equivalent of Nagash, the Great Necromancer.
Catchphrase: Eternity will be mine, or there will be no eternity.
Hated by All: All of the Primarchs had friends among their brothers. They will even admit to having been close to some of those who fought on the opposite side of the Heresy until that action caused them to have a parting of ways. Except for the Eleventh. Nobody liked him.
- The trend very much continues after he reveals himself. Pretty much every other force in the galaxy, whether good or evil, has ZERO interest in allowing him to claim Eternity. And all of them work together (at least to a certain degree) in making sure that his plans are foiled before he can be allowed to ascend. Even the Imperium, who normally would NOT hesitate to attack any forces of Chaos, focus all of their attention on destroying the Yellow King's defenses while letting the other forces of Chaos freely invade through them. It's particularly telling that Perturabo, who has a legendary hatred of Rogal Dorn, chooses to attack the Yellow King over Dorn when the two of them are in the same room.
- When he first returned to take command of his Legion, half of his Legion refused to swear themselves to him in spite of the sire-bond. And Fabius Bile, the legendarily infamous Mad Scientist amongst the Traitor Astartes who normally has borderline nonexistent standards when it comes to his mad science and genecraft, refuses to even remotely entertain the idea of creating new Space Marines based on the Eleventh.
I Know Your True Name: Inverted and unintentionally weaponized. Having his own Name psychically stripped from him by the Emperor, causes Chaos' attempts to target him to be much less effective than normal. This ends once Rogal Dorn re-names him as Nagash, removing that psychic "invisibility" and presenting the Ruinous Powers with a clear target.
In Name Only: While there is a character named The King in Yellow in the 40K lore, he was introduced in the Bequin novels, which are relatively recent, published at a fairly slow rate, and as of the introduction of the character with the same name in TWO, not finished yet. As such, there is little in common between the two characters other than the name. One notable inconsistency is that the second Bequin novel claimed that the King's true identity is Constantin Valdor rather than a Lost Primarch as he is in TWO. Valdor died in TWO a year before that novel was even published.
Mirror Character: The Eleventh and Second Primarchs were Unpersoned in order to cover a great shame for the Imperium. However, where Hattori Hanzo fell to an enemy far stronger than himself and his Legion, was devoted to the Emperor's dream and genuinely loved by his brothers, with his story uncovered and honored by Weaver — the King in Yellow apparently defied the Imperium by being a Godhood Seeker, was loathed by his entire family, and Malicia sought for his remains to unbalance the galaxy further.
The Nameless: Part of what the Emperor did when eradicating the Eleventh Legion was to psychically expunge all memory of the names of everyone in it. The King in Yellow, a secondary title he held, is the closest thing he has to a name left. His true name is eventually revealed to be Nagash.
- This is also revealed to be the reason he even survived in the first place. After his original death, Nagash's soul was eventually devoured by a daemon, however without a True Name to connect to, said soul proved to be indigestable, allowing him to slowly take the daemon over from within to jumpstart his path back to power.
Necromancer: His servants appear as undead skeletons in Astartes Power Armor.
Noodle Incident: Nobody short of the Emperor, the Primarchs and the Custodes remember precisely what the Eleventh did to get himself and his Legion sentenced to obliteration - because the death sentence included having all records of the Legion and all its actions expunged from history.
The Sociopath: Just like the Nagash of Warhammer Fantasy, he is a complete and utter sociopath who has an extremely inflated sense of self-worth, is very sadistic, and doesn't give a single shit about anybody except himself.
Unperson: The only reason the man on the street knows there ever was an Eleventh Legion, and by extension an Eleventh Primarch, at some point is by inference over the fact that there was once a Tenth and Twelfth Legion led by the Tenth and Twelfth Primarchs. All records of their names and deeds have been expunged from Imperial history, save for in the highly classified archives kept by the Custodes. Rogal Dorn undoes this metaphysically by re-naming the Eleventh Primarch as Nagash, which singlehandedly destroys his aspirations to become Master of Eternity and allows the Ruinous Powers to unleash their full vengeance upon him.

The Simurgh

The Simurgh, The Hopekiller

Last of the original Endbringers of Earth Bet, she somehow survived the Gold Morning and made her way to the Imperium. Now free from all outside control, she plots her own, unknown, agenda.

The Dreaded: Was the most feared of the three for a reason - Behemoth and Leviathan could only kill you, but Ziz can drive you insane, or subtly twist you so that you appear perfectly normal for years until she has you fulfill your role in her plans.
Hated by All: Loyalist or Traitor, all Parahumans hate the Simurgh for what she is and what she does. It only takes escaping a single meeting for anyone else to share that opinion.
Light Is Not Good: Looks like an Angel. Utterly evil.
Mind Control: Her singing can drive men to madness, or twist them into her unknowing puppets. The discovery that Aethergold can expose people twisted into Ziz Bombs makes her slightly less dangerous, but Aethergold is hard to come by.
Never Found the Body: While Behemoth and Leviathan were confirmed dead in the Gold Morning, nobody was sure what happened to the Simurgh, with the general consensus being to not assume her dead until after personally attending the funeral. Later turned out to be alive.

Characters / The Weaver Option

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Parahumans

Her Celestial Highness Taylor Hebert, Lady Weaver, Duchess of Brockton, Basileia of Nyx, Living Saint Weaver, Lady General Militant of the Imperial Guard, Empress of the Aeldari Empire, Peer of Terra, Baroness of Pavia, Duchess of Commorragh

Tech-Priest/Magos-Draco/Lady Magos Dogma/Archmagos Dragon Richter

Inquisitor Contessa

Judge Missy Byron, High Justiciar and Minister of Justice for Nyx

Second Naval Secretary (Later Rogue Trader) Dennis Peters

Leet

Callidus Assassin Elena Kerrigan, formerly known as Sophia Hess, Angel of the Shadows

Doormaker

Malicia, the Destiny Unwritten, formerly known as Victoria Dallon

The Imperium

Fay

Colonel Daviev Larkine

Governor Ilvyna Dalten

Lord Commissar Zuhev

Wuhan

Governor Hongfeng Cao

Seneschal Consort Wei Cao, Regina of Wuhan

Nyx

First Naval Secretary (Later Rogue Trader) Wolfgang Bach

Lady Architect Cyrene Valantion, the Blessed Lady

Commander Freya Brasidas

The Inquisition

Lord Inquisitor Odysseus Tor

Lady Inquisitor Rafaela Harper

The Adeptus Mechanicus

Magos Explorator/Archmagos Desmerius Lankovar

Archmagos Dominus Belisarius Cawl

The Adeptus Astartes

Sergeant Gavreel Forcas, Dark Angel Legionnaire (Officially listed as a Dark Warden)

Chapter Master Jeremiah Isley, formerly Harrowmaster

Venerable Ancient Dreadnought Pierre

Aeonid Thiel, Ultramarine

Venerable Ancient Dreadnought Rylanor, Master of Rites of the Third Legion

Rogal Dorn, Praetorian of Terra, Primarch of the Imperial Fists, 7th Legion of the Space Marines

Hanzo from the Hattori clan, Fleet Admiral of the Tsunami Sabres, 2nd Legion of the Space Marines

Corvus Corax, The Ravenlord, Primarch of the Raven Guard, 19th Legion of the Space Marines

Leman Russ, The Lord of Winter and Ruin, The Wolf King of Fenris, Primarch of the Space Wolves, 6th Legion of the Space Marines

Roboute Guilliman, The Master of Ultramar, The Avenging Son, Primarch of the Ultramarines, 13th Legion of the Space Marines

The Frateris Templar

Abbess-Crusader Theodora Gaius

Legate Galatea Dumas

Terra

Nostradamus Vandire, the Grox

Nicephorus Vandire

Xerxes Vandire

Lord Commander Militant Paul von Oberstein

Captain-General Anubis Excelsor

His Most Holy Majesty, the Master of Mankind, the Last Guardian, the Anathema

The Aeldari

Malan'tai

Seer Maea Teallysis

Biel-Tan

Farseer Vyrion Kaeran

Farseer Filgonilth Sirethmoren

Autarch Jirkanith Maloskilen

Autarch-Mariner Gladiel Imrik

Dire Avenger Yvraine Kaydinn

Phoenix Lord Jain Zar, the Storm of Silence.

Commorragh

Travelliath Sliscus, "Duke" of Commorragh, The Serpent, Admiral of the Sky Serpents

Aurelia Malys, the Queen of Hearts, High Priestess of Atharti

Aenaria Eldanesh, AKA Lelith Hesperax, the Queen of Blades, First Sword-bearer, Herald of Vaul, the Third Endbringer

Lugganath

Shaa-dom

Ulthwe

Alaitoc

Iyanden

"Prince" Yriel Uldanesh

Pantheon

The Laughing God

Khaela Mensha Khaine

Isha

Atharti

Addaioth

The Necrons

Trazyn The Infinite Collector, Overlord of Solemnace, Acting Triarch of the Necrons

Phaerakh-Cryptek Neferten