Fanatical devotees of Khorne the Blood God, the World Eaters Traitor Legion is formed of countless warbands who exist only to slaughter and take skulls in honour of their bloody patron.
The Adeptus Mechanicus go to war with cohorts of Skitarii cyborg templars, bizarre war engines, and the fanatical followers of the Machine God, led into holy war by their robed Tech-Priests.
The T'au Empire is a young and dynamic civilisation of technologically advanced aliens, spreading like wildfire across the stars as they seek to unite every sapient being under the philosophy of the Greater Good.
Knights are colossal suits of armour bristling with heavy weapons, employed both by noble houses of the lmperium and those fallen to Chaos. Regardless of their allegiance, they are capable of laying waste to entire enemy armies.
The zealous warriors of the Adepta Sororitas are the most devout servants of the Imperium. Singing praise to the God-Emperor, they embark on crusading Wars of Faith to smite the heretic, the mutant, the witch and the xenos.
The Necrons are a deathless race of alien androids, entombed in self-repairing bodies of living metal. In a long forgotten era, they ruled the galaxy. Now, having slumbered in stasis for millennia, they are rising up to conquer it again.
Chaos Space Marines are the Imperium's most bitter foes – warbands of genetically augmented killers, clad in baroque armour and sworn to otherworldly forces, festooned with the battle scars and trophies of their treachery.
The Death Guard are the chosen Legion of the Plague God Nurgle, the diseased scions of the Daemon Primarch Mortarion, and they bring sickness and destruction to all who oppose them.
As the massive space hulks known as the Arks of Omen spread the flames of Abaddon’s war across the galaxy, a powerful agent of the Inquisition ignites an ancient archeotech beacon – praying that its light might drive back the darkness. Yet that which burns bright may be seen from afar. Deep in the void, the hateful gaze of Angron, Daemon Primarch of the World Eaters, is drawn towards the light. Driven by his fury, the Red Angel vows to drown the beacon in blood.
The Great Rift has torn the Emperor's realm in two. Ancient alien empires rise from the ashes of prehistory to claw at the dying stars. Predatory nightmares boil from the outer darkness, while everywhere the veil of reality wears thin and the flames of war rise ever higher. Day by day, battle upon battle, the galaxy careens ever closer to total annihiliation.
The Blood Angels are counted among the most noble of Space Marines, the angelic defenders of Humanity. Yet beneath their beautiful appearance lie dark secrets – the ferocious Red Thirst, and the berserk psychosis known as the Black Rage.
The Deathwatch is a gathering of Space Marines unlike any other, as every Deathwatch warrior is pledged to its ranks by another Chapter. Together they form the lmperium's greatest weapon against the threats posed by xenos races.