Daemon

Evil gribblies from the Warp/Realm of Chaos, usually related to one of the four Chaos gods. Daemons come in all shapes, sizes, and flavors, including all the flavors in Dr. Pepper, all 51 Baskin Robins flavors, and the 57 different varieties. However, they are normally found in a few common exciting new flavors:

• Sex-fiend s/he daemons
• Metal-head daemons
• Nerdy/con-man daemons
• Disease-ridden shit bag daemons
• Giant axe wielding daemons
• Sexually deviant daemons
• Feathered sorcerer daemons
• Even more disease-ridden shit bag daemons

About Daemons

Daemons are the manifestations of humanity's negative emotions. Nurgle is the manifestation of death, destruction, and pestilence, but nevertheless shows the positive emotions of acceptance, equality, and genuine care for his followers (albeit in a very twisted way). Khorne is the manifestation of bloodshed, rage and war, and a twisted version of martial virtue. Tzeentch is the manifestation of power, deceit, ambition and hope, but also all forms of change and evolution, positive and negative, and learning. Slaanesh manifested from the Eldar's hedonism and debauchery (at least in 40k; his/her origin in WFB is unclear), and represents both excess and love.

They reside in a chaotic and hellish dimension known as the Warp, also known as the Immaterium. The Warp is home to the Chaos Gods' realms, where they constantly wage a never-ending war with each other for supremacy. Daemons cannot enter realspace at will due to them being made of warp energy. Daemons can only enter realspace if they are either summoned or can use realspace entrances that could allow them to remain in realspace, such as warp rifts or possession of a host (usually psykers as they tap the Warp to use their powers, which reveal themselves to daemons and leave them vulnerable to it's influences, or powerful (and mostly unwilling) individuals that the daemon would have great use of, like Chaos Space Marines).

They generally cannot be killed but only banished back to the Warp (Though, they sometimes can be banished for a long period of time - millennia, even - buying realspace some relative peace until the daemon is free to wreak havoc again). Banishing daemons normally vary from their power, lesser daemons like Bloodletters can normally be banished back by either a few dozen shots from a lasgun or a simple chant of a certain scripture that daemons fear, while Greater Daemons like a Bloodthirster or Great Unclean One will normally either require extremely powerful dakka the size of Baneblades, or the intervention of the Daemonhunters or similar specialists.

It should be noted that despite the name "Daemon" is their widely accepted name by the mortal races, it is not necessarily their actual name. One Daemon even remarks that it is merely a name given to them by mortals (generally humans) due to its satanic origin. (even if it technically has a more neutral, Greek origin, but scratch that, current fluff writers aren't the authors of the RoC).

True Names

Daemons tend to hide their true names by giving themselves false ones. This is due to the fact that they can be banished if their true should ever be uttered. The downside about true names is that all true names are quite a mouthful. Daemons' true names are very hard to pronounce if you aren't well trained psyker like a Librarian or a full-fledged Inquisitor, and can actually make your throat sore. There was even one instance that uttering their true names can actually make your mouth literally burn.

Chaos Gods

• Papa Nurgle, the benevolent father and the plague master. Fattest of all the Gods and also the first God to manifest but second to be actually born. He was most likely born during the times of the Black Plague, but he began to form during the Justinian plague over a half millennium before.
• Khorne, is incredibly large and angry all the time for absolutely no reason, other than the fact that he likes beating up the other Gods. Listens to Death Metal and tortures all of the other gods' daemons when they fail, as he is too stupid to tell them to do their own work Khorne despises torture and causing painful kills as that fuels Slaanesh, he just kills them quickly and is done with it.. He is second to have manifested but the first one to be born, most likely during the congregation of bloodshed known as the Mongol Invasion.
• Tzeentch, the tricksy nerdy smart one, has no time for simple pleasures; once mindfucked himself from the past, present, future, current and the 9th dimension all at once. Invented the phrase, 'JUST AS PLANNED". Tzeentch is the third born, likely forming during the Renaissance out of the outpouring of hope and ambition. Though younger than Nurgle, Tzeentch is more powerful, and sits in a comfortable second place behind Khorne.
• Slaanesh, the chronic masturbater, his/her mission is to get Tzeentch to become perverted, just to see what it would look like. He/She/it/Hermaphrodite is the youngest to be born by far (And therefore, the weakest amongst the Gods). Slaanesh is notably, the only Chaos God who was not born out of human emotions.

This is, of course, not counting the independent Daemons like Furies(not to be confused with furries), who are less awesome.

See Also

• Daemonette
• Warhammer 40,000/Tactics/Chaos Daemons
• Warhammer/Tactics/Daemons of Chaos