Editing Daemonhost (section)

==Effects on the Host==

The host also usually manifests psychic powers as a result of their close connection with a creature of the warp, sometimes so powerful that the host's body can barely contain it. They may appear to arc with electrical energy, cause minor air disturbances and often float a few inches from the ground. Daemonhosts also benefit from the invulnerability's of the daemon inhabiting its body, though the particulars may change from daemon to daemon. [[Werewolves|Some may only be harmed with silver,]] [[Vampire Counts|while others may be destroyed by sunlight.]] [[Blood Angels|Some need to consume nothing but blood to survive.]] These traits may account for the stories of Vampyre cults that exist on some worlds in the Imperium.

It is possible to purge a daemon from a hosts body, leaving the individual free, but usually mentally, physically and sometimes spiritually scarred by the experience via an exorcism. While traumatic, the Inquisition has actually found this worth it and have even created [[Exorcists|an entire chapter of Space Marines]] who are forcibly made into Daemonhosts , before the daemon is exorcised from them because it usually has the interesting side effect of making the former hosts less perceptible to daemons to the point that in their first field test, the Exorcists achieved a 98/1 kill ratio on a daemon world. Unfortunately sometimes such a mark is made that the opposite happens, the individual is more susceptible to future daemonic possession, such individuals are usually executed.

Eventually, no matter how powerful a host's will, the experience of sharing a mind and body with a daemon will lead to insanity, effectively bringing an end to the life of the host, and allowing the warp entity to take complete control. In such cases, an exorcism may be of little benefit to the pathetic creature, and death will be the only mercy.

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