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* [[SinisterMinister Kor Phaeron]], the Black Cardinal of the Word Bearers Legion, was Erebus's co-conspirator in the Horus Heresy. Formerly a priest on the feudal world of Colchis, Kor Phaeron had been banished from the Covenant of Colchis for his radical, violent religious views. Kidnapping the young Primarch [[Characters/HorusHeresyTraitorPrimarchs Lorgar Aurelian]] and exterminating the desert nomads who had been raising him, Kor Phaeron [[AbusiveParents horrifically abused him]] as he groomed him into his agent of revenge against the Covenant, leading to a devastating civil war. Years later, when Kor Phaeron was serving under Lorgar as the Word Bearers' First Captain, he began conspiring with Erebus to overthrow the Imperium and sell the galaxy out to Chaos for their own benefit. [[TheCorrupter Corrupting]] Lorgar to Chaos and seeding cults on the worlds they attacked, Kor Phaeron and Erebus's machinations led to the Horus Heresy, which shattered the Imperium and killed trillions of people. During the attack on Calth, Kor Phaeron stabbed Roboute Guilliman with the Athame blade, hoping to corrupt the Primarch to the Dark Gods. When the Horus Heresy failed and the Word Bearers fled to the Daemon World Sicarus, Kor Phaeron found a prophecy that told of Chaos's ultimate victory at the cost of his life; in response, he slew the prophet Jepeth and destroyed his prophecies, undermining the Word Bearers and the Chaos Gods he claimed to serve to [[ItsAllAboutMe save his own skin]].

* [[MadArtist Urien Rakarth]], aka the Sculptor of Torments, is the Master Haemonculus of the Prophets of Flesh. An eons-old [[MadScientist experimenter]], Rakarth has spent millennia [[PlayingWithSyringes cutting apart]] countless victims and [[BodyHorror restitching them]] into [[AndIMustScream mindless, pain-stricken monstrosities]] as attack dogs or attractions for his Carnivals of Pain: spectacles put on for high-ranking Drukhari to behold slaves being devoured, payment for attendance of which frequently involves Rakarth demanding pieces of the viewers' minds or bodies. Spreading his depravity, Rakarth teaches his twisted followers with pride, even educating Fabius Bile himself in the ways of torturous experimentation, and is known to have demanded so many victims for his experiments that he forces Archons to go to war and take entire sectors prisoner just to ensure he never runs out of bodies.

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-->--'''''Lives of the Depraved'', by Konrad Steinhoff''', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} Fantasy RPG 1st ED--Castle Drachenfels''

* [[MadArtist Urien Rakarth]] is the Master Haemonculus of the Prophets of Flesh. An eons-old [[MadScientist experimenter]], Rakarth has spent millennia [[PlayingWithSyringes cutting apart]] countless victims and [[BodyHorror restitching them]] into [[AndIMustScream mindless, pain-stricken monstrosities]] as attack dogs or attractions for his Carnivals of Pain: spectacles put on for high-ranking Drukhari to behold slaves being devoured, payment for attendance of which frequently involves Rakarth demanding pieces of the viewers' minds or bodies. Spreading his depravity, Rakarth teaches his twisted followers with pride, and even educated Fabius Bile himself in the ways of torturous experimentation.

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!!''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''
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* [[Characters/Warhammer40000ForcesOfChaos Forces]] of {{Chaos|Is Evil}}:
** [[TheDreaded Ezekyle Abaddon]], known as [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Despoiler]], is the heir of the [[Literature/HorusHeresy fallen Primarch Horus]]. Abaddon is consumed with hatred for all that lives, even [[RageAgainstTheMentor his former master]], and seeks nothing less than [[OmnicidalManiac the extermination of all]] he can manage while uniting humanity under the dark banners of Chaos. As the only man with the support of all the Gods of Chaos, Abaddon, the Warmaster of Chaos, has united the forces of Chaos under his banner no fewer than thirteen times in the Black Crusades. During these ventures, each of which has killed millions if not billions, Abaddon storms the galaxy itself, [[RapePillageAndBurn burning and destroying all he can]] until the forces of the Imperium inevitably defeat him. Abaddon hardly minds as he is able to destroy and kill in great number, something [[BloodKnight he loves]] more than anything else. In the 13th Black Crusade alone, Abaddon launches a successful assault on Cadia, finally exterminating the planet and carving a bloody swath through space in his quest to Holy Terra, killing trillions in order to overthrow the Emperor. Willing to send countless numbers of his own to their doom--if not [[BadBoss killing them himself]]--and living only to destroy everything he can to the point he rejects Daemonhood to continue the slaughter on the material plane, Abaddon is the champion of Chaos and is one of the most evil and brutal beings in all of the dark world of ''Warhammer 40,000''.
** [[AncientEvil Be'lakor the First Damned]] was the first of the [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Daemon Princes]], a man responsible for unfathomable atrocities and bloodshed to receive the universal acclimation of the Ruinous Powers. Be'lakor spread through the galaxy, [[GalacticConqueror conquering]] and then [[TheCorrupter corrupting]] entire civilizations before letting them fall to extinction or wiping them out while also guiding the bloody rise of Ezekyle Abaddon to further atrocities until he tried to upstage his supposed pupil during the final Black Crusade, leading an attack on Holy Terra to destroy it and [[KillAllHumans all humanity]] to elevate himself.
** [[SinisterMinister Erebus]], First Chaplain of the [[Characters/HorusHeresyTraitorLegions Word Bearers]], was the first ever [[Characters/Warhammer40000ChaosMarines Chaos Space Marine]]. After his fall, Erebus set up the slaughter of the Interex civilization to prevent them from warning the Imperium about Chaos and [[TheCorrupter arranged for the corruption]] of Lorgar and Horus Lupercal, setting up the Literature/HorusHeresy that would turn the galaxy and Imperium into hellholes and cost countless lives. Erebus helped to arrange the Istvan V Drop Site massacre where he had countless Marines loyal to the Emperor slaughtered and purged an entire planetary system of life to empower daemons with the intention of corrupting the Blood Raven chapter. In the present, Erebus continues to serve Lorgar, and was involved in the 13th Black Crusade where he sacrificed millions to summon Daemons to assist Abaddon's forces. Responsible more than almost anyone else for the horrific state of the galaxy, Erebus repeatedly shows why he is one of the most vile servants of Chaos around.
** [[SinisterMinister Kor Phaeron]], the Black Cardinal of the Word Bearers Legion, was Erebus's co-conspirator in the Horus Heresy. Formerly a priest on the feudal world of Colchis, Kor Phaeron had been banished from the Covenant of Colchis for his radical, violent religious views. Kidnapping the young Primarch [[Characters/HorusHeresyTraitorPrimarchs Lorgar Aurelian]] and exterminating the desert nomads who had been raising him, Kor Phaeron [[AbusiveParents horrifically abused him]] as he groomed him into his agent of revenge against the Covenant, leading to a devastating civil war. Years later, when Kor Phaeron was serving under Lorgar as the Word Bearers' First Captain, he began conspiring with Erebus to overthrow the Imperium and sell the galaxy out to Chaos for their own benefit. [[TheCorrupter Corrupting]] Lorgar to Chaos and seeding cults on the worlds they attacked, Kor Phaeron and Erebus's machinations led to the Horus Heresy, which shattered the Imperium and killed trillions of people. During the attack on Calth, Kor Phaeron stabbed Roboute Guilliman with the Athame blade, hoping to corrupt the Primarch to the Dark Gods. When the Horus Heresy failed and the Word Bearers fled to the Daemon World Sicarus, Kor Phaeron found a prophecy that told of Chaos's ultimate victory at the cost of his life; in response, he slew the prophet Jepeth and destroyed his prophecies, undermining the Word Bearers and the Chaos Gods he claimed to serve to [[ItsAllAboutMe save his own skin]].
** [[MadDoctor Fabius Bile]], the self-styled "Primogenitor", is an unspeakably vile force [[TheDreaded feared and hated across the galaxy]] to those who know his name and actions, even among the Traitor Legions of Chaos. A MadScientist extraordinaire longing to exceed the scientific accomplishments of the Emperor, Bile refuses to pledge himself to any one Chaos God and instead sells his services to whomever can take him, stringing behind him a [[PlayingWithSyringes legacy of depraved experiments, genocides, and horrors]] with entire sectors of lives reduced longing for death from what Bile has brought upon them. Among Bile's many atrocities are forcing those he has [[FlayingAlive flayed]] to carry a [[GenuineHumanHide cloak made of the skin]] of dozens behind him, earning him the epiphet Manflayer; forcing the population of Dimmamar to [[SadisticChoice take in his own mutative serums or suffocate]] by changing the composition of the very air they breathed; squashing down over a million prisoners into [[HumanResources amplifying drugs]] for his followers, whom he also treats as test fodder; engaging in degenerate experiments with clones, earning him fear and respect from the world of Palamar V; and his proudest accomplishment, the "New Men", with the populations of entire worlds transformed into powerful but blindly murderous specimens of his own image. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Reviled by even the Traitor Legions he is ostensibly a part of]], Fabius Bile is a man who has dedicated his life to [[FameThroughInfamy immortality through infamy]] by means of the destruction and perversion of billions of lives in his never-ending quest to permanently etch the foul memory of his name on the universe.
** [[{{Plaguemaster}} Typhus the Traveler]], once known as Calas Typhon, is the Chaos Lord responsible for the creation of the [[PlagueZombie Plague Marines]]. {{Treacherous|Advisor}} since the days of the Literature/HorusHeresy, Calas Typhon truly came into the forces of Chaos by betraying all his companions in the Death Guard to the diseases of Nurgle, causing them agony which only ended when they pledged themselves utterly to Nurgle. Since then, Typhus has traveled across the galaxy spreading hundreds of thousands of diseases, consuming countless worlds and killing billions. Among Typhus's greatest achievements is the zombie plague, which once condemned 23 billion lives to a horrible death when they accidentally barricaded themselves in with Typhus's reanimating victims. In another instance Typhus condemned an entire planet to [[AndIMustScream forever rot away]], unable to do anything but sing eternal hymns to Nurgle. [[{{Sadist}} Taking a vile pleasure]] from the reaping of lives himself, Typhus once single-handedly obliterated the holy planet of Annunciation and every life upon it with nothing short of sadistic glee. Responsible for the worst depths of his old friend Mortarion, who became Nurgle's Daemon Primarch through Typhus's manipulation, and with one of the highest body counts a follower of Chaos can boast, Typhus is perhaps the vilest of Nurgle's noxious armies.
** [[TheUnfettered Honsou]] of the Literature/IronWarriors is the eventual Warsmith of his band once he assists in the theft of Imperial Fist geneseeds. A cold, practical, and cruel [[Characters/Warhammer40000ChaosMarines Chaos Marine]], Honsou establishes the Daemonculaba; taking human women to use as agonized "[[WombHorror wombs]]" to insert humans into and mutate them into Chaos Marines, with the "unfleshed" failures discarded. When the process is disrupted by the Ultramarines, a spiteful Honsou uses a virus bomb to annihilate one of their worlds and leads an attempt to annihilate the entire sector of Ultramar in retribution.
* The [[Characters/Warhammer40000Imperium Imperium]] of [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Man]] is fraught with corruption, incompetence, and KnightTemplar ruthlessness, but these two embody [[HumansAreBastards all the worst qualities of Man]]:
** [[TheCaligula High Lord Goge Vandire]], the instigator of the Age of Apostasy, made himself the [[EvilOverlord head of the Imperium]] in all but name. [[TyrantTakesTheHelm Launching a brutal wave of repression and torture]] that spanned across countless worlds, with endless billions and more tortured [[AxCrazy for his pleasure]], Vandire demanded tithing and [[AGodAmI planned for his own worship to supplant that of the Emperor himself]], wiping out entire worlds should they fail to meet his standards. Nearly tearing the Imperium apart, Vandire's depredations continued for seven full decades with a reign of terror and brutal tyranny such as the Imperium had never known.
** [[TheCaligula Herman von Strab]] is known as the worst waste of flesh in Imperial history. A [[AristocratsAreEvil petty noble]] who murdered his brothers and father to rise to power, von Strab combined incompetence and malice with extreme cowardice. Upon the invasion of Armageddon, von Strab was happy to sacrifice his own to kill political rivals, getting millions of soldiers and civilians killed before deploying planet-killing bombs to slaughter millions of humans and Orks in an attempt to catch Commissar Yarrick in the blast, even sacrificing an entire colony in the war. Later [[TheQuisling allying with the Orks]] in the [[Literature/TheLastChancers Third Armageddon War]] to let them rampage, thus having the blood of many millions on his hands, von Strab tried to inspire a bloody civil war through the Imperium and happily participated in HumanSacrifice by throwing victims into a volcano.
* [[Characters/Warhammer40000DarkEldar Drukhari (aka Dark Eldar)]]:
** [[TheChessmaster Asdrubael Vect]], Archon of the Black Heart Kabal and Supreme Overlord of Commorragh, is one of the eldest beings in the galaxy and one of the most unspeakably vile. The lord of the Dark Eldar who keeps the horrific culture of torture and depravity going, Vect masterminds the slaughter and torture of countless innocents on a constant basis while also [[KickTheDog engaging in mentally tormenting]] a luckless slave, even [[http://web.archive.org/web/20110124235427/http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m1520304a_TheTorturersTale.pdf revealing]] a drink they were sharing will give him agonizing stomach cramps for days. What sets Vect apart is his willingness to cross even the few lines other Dark Eldar have, having captured an Imperial Salamander to lure the Imperium to Comorragh and allow them to kill off his own people [[ItsAllAboutMe just to eliminate his rivals]]. Being a [[TortureTechnician master torturer]] who feeds off the agony of others, Vect once faked his own death to allow the Dark Eldar to lapse into a terrible civil war, and once the battle lines had been drawn, Vect [[ColonyDrop dropped a sun]] on the rebels, wiping them out along with all the innocents and civilians in that section of the city, damning all their souls to be devoured by Slaanesh. [[ManipulativeBastard Unspeakably devious]], [[FauxAffablyEvil hiding behind a mask of civility and refinement]], Vect is almost unmatched in cruelty and evil even in this grim dark future.
** [[MadArtist Urien Rakarth]] is the Master Haemonculus of the Prophets of Flesh. An eons-old [[MadScientist experimenter]], Rakarth has spent millennia [[PlayingWithSyringes cutting apart]] countless victims and [[BodyHorror restitching them]] into [[AndIMustScream mindless, pain-stricken monstrosities]] as attack dogs or attractions for his Carnivals of Pain: spectacles put on for high-ranking Drukhari to behold slaves being devoured, payment for attendance of which frequently involves Rakarth demanding pieces of the viewers' minds or bodies. Spreading his depravity, Rakarth teaches his twisted followers with pride, and even educated Fabius Bile himself in the ways of torturous experimentation.
** [[HumanTraffickers Kruellagh the Vile]] is the Archon of the Kabal of the Flayed Skull. [[VampiricDraining Reaping life energy from her victims]] to empower herself with her Soul Flayer, Kruellagh has spent centuries raiding and taking countless prisoners. Her entire Kabal are forced to pay tribute to her in [[YourSoulIsMine souls]], with Kruellagh having the Kabal's [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slaves]] brought to the Haemonculi, subjecting planets worth of people to an [[FateWorseThanDeath unspeakable fate]].
* [[Characters/Warhammer40000Necrons Necrons]]: These are the worst of the [[JerkassGods godlike C'tan]] that enslaved the Necrontyr themselves:
** [[MindRape Aza'gorod]], [[DarkIsEvil the Nightbringer]], first of the C'tan, is the most fearsome and evil of the Stargods who first learned that the agony of other races could sustain it. Delighting in annihilating countless civilizations and torturing untold billions of innocent beings so their pain might feed it, the Nightbringer brought countless others into depravity to satisfy its twisted need for worship before ending them as well. The Nightbringer was the first to discover [[MonstrousCannibalism cannibalism]] among the C'tan, setting them against one another until only a few were left. [[SealedEvilInACan Sealed away]], the Nightbringer later manages to escape and plots a return when [[OmnicidalManiac it might end everything in the galaxy]] for its own glory.
** [[ManipulativeBastard Mephet'ran]], [[TheCharmer the Deceiver]], is the weakest yet [[TheChessmaster most intelligent]] of the C'tan. Orchestrating regular massive and genocidal conflicts as its preferred method to achieve its goals, the Deceiver masterminds the corruption of the Necrontyr, tricking or in some cases violently forcing the entire race into giving up their bodies and being enslaved under its and other C'tan's control before using them to cause a galactic war. Saturating the conflict by PlayingBothSides and even tricking other C'tan to their deaths for him to consume, the Deceiver is known for its deceptions being the single most deadly weapon in the war, while ultimately seeking to devour all that lives just to cleanse its inferiority complex.
** [[PosthumousCharacter Llandu'gor]], [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Flayer]], [[DyingCurse cursed its Necron killers]] for revenge after abusing them as their former master. Becoming the [[HatePlague Flayer Virus]], the C'tan now plagues the Necrons, turning them into mindless beings with an insatiable and infinite appetite for flesh and causing them to seek out and gruesomely kill any and all organic life they encounter.

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* ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'' series: [[BigBad Chapter Master Azariah Kyras]], through ''Chaos Rising'' and ''Retribution'', steadily reveals himself to have [[FallenHero long fallen from his noble roots]] while authoring all the conflict and death in the series. Kyras, centuries ago, pledged himself to Khorne and dedicated himself to "freedom" by means of [[BloodKnight mindless bloodshed]] and the [[OmnicidalManiac slaughter of countless billions]], achieved by [[TheChessmaster his manipulation of all the chaotic events]] plaguing the sub-sector of Aurelia in order to provoke Exterminatus on the entire sector and offer the resulting annihilation as tribute to Khorne. All throughout, Kyras [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates]] and [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betrays]] everyone within his own Chapter, [[TheCorrupter corrupting his own battle-brothers]] and flagging those who resist as heretics, before finally revealing his true nature to even his own devout follower Apollo Diomedes and proclaiming billions shall scream and burn as the ultimate culmination of his service to Khorne. Kyras stands unique even among the servants of Chaos through his sheer unchecked fanaticism and madness, willing to shed blood on scales unprecedented even for Khornates and musing over the beauty of the senseless death he's wrought as he watches an entire inhabited planet engulfed by the Exterminatus--a gift he eventually plans on sharing with every living soul in the galaxy once he ascends into a Greater Daemon.