Sorcerer (Warhammer 40,000)

Neroth, a Sorcerer, ruining someone's day.

Start with a Space Marine Librarian, add some heresy, and you get a Chaos Sorcerer. They are the heavy-duty psykers of the Chaos Space Marines. They feel the Warp overtaking them, and to them, it is a good pain.

For the most part, Sorcerers see themselves as great discoverers of arcane knowledge, studying the Warp from a perspective that the foolish worshipers of the Corpse God deny themselves. They often lead warbands of other Chaos Space Marines, either because they want to learn, too, or to do the fighting while the Sorcerer does the learning.

While they certainly can be scholars or warlords (or both), the dirty secret of the Sorcerers is that they are just as much pawns of the Chaos Gods as everyone else. Magnus the Red (and all of the Thousand Sons) learned this the hard way during the Horus Heresy, when the Rubric of Ahriman turned all non-psyker Thousand Sons into Rubric Marines.

Tzeentch is often considered the patron Chaos God of Sorcerers, as arcane knowledge (and manipulating pawns) is part of his purview. Nurgle and Slaanesh also have Sorcerers within their ranks, though not to the extent as Tzeentch. Khorne, on the other hand, usually hates them (in fact, they cannot take the Mark of Khorne in-game), but he may make an exception for particularly bloodthirsty psykers, like Azariah Kyras.

It is worth noting that while most sorcerers are also psykers, a sorcerer does not have to be a psyker.

Noteworthy Sorcerers

• Ahriman: Maybe the most famous and powerful Chaos Sorcerer of all time, second only to his primarch. Responsible, among other things, of the epic fail/epic win that was the Rubric of Ahriman who turned his legion into the state that it is now, gaining is ass kicked from his legion in the process. Now is searching the Black Library, but failing in doing so. To his credit he gained land each time he tried and now he's getting frighteningly close this time. Some say that he's make up things with his legion recently and joined him in his search.

• SSSSIIIIINNNNNDDDDRRRIIII: Sorcerer of The Alpha Legion. Maybe a Daemon Prince, but got his ass pwned by Gabe so he couldn't properly ascend and died, the sexy-voiced bastard.

• Neroth: A sorcerer of the Black Legion and the nagging wife of Eliphas. A particularly bloodthirsty sorcerer who only thinks in hearing whispers in the warp and burn things. Rumors say that he host a barbecue every Sunday in the Vengeful Spirit. Also a sexy-voiced bastard.

• Nemeroth: A sorcerer so boss that he have his own warband: The chosen of Nemeroth. A manipulative guy who corrupted a radical Inquisitor into the creation of a warp-fueled power source only to ascend to daemonhood and invade a forgeworld in the process. As Sindri, he was killed while ascending, but by one of the very few awesome smurfs. Oddly, he isn't armed with any Force weapon, but with a pair of flesh-engraved lightning claws.

The Traitor Legions and Warbands of Chaos
Chaos Legions:	Alpha Legion - Black Legion - Death Guard Emperor's Children - Iron Warriors - Night Lords Thousand Sons - Word Bearers - World Eaters
Legion Offshoots:	Apostles of Contagion - Bloodborn - Broken Aquila Foresworn - Mouldering Claw - Plague Fleet - Prodigal Sons The Consortium - Warband of Subsector Aurelia
Fallen Chapters (Including Judged):	Adharon's Reavers - Blood Gorgons - Company of Misery Corpus Brethren - Crimson Slaughter - Deathmongers Death Shadows - Invocators - Lords of Decay Oracles of Change - Red Corsairs - Shriven The Brazen Beasts - The Flawless Host - The Scourged Skyrar's Dark Wolves - Steel Cobras - Voidrippers
Unknown/ Other:	Apostles of Minthras - Claws of Lorek - Disciples of Destruction Dragon Warriors - Extinction Angels - Hakanor's Reavers - Punishers The Cleaved - The Purge - The Pyre - Sons of Malice - Sons of Vengeance The Reborn - Violators - Warp Ghosts - Bleak Brotherhood