Illuminati (40k)
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This article is not about the alleged cabal which allegedly influences the course of history. Not that such alleged cabals exist. fnord
The Illuminati (meaning "illuminated") are a group whose members "illuminate" themselves by allowing themselves to be possessed by daemons and then forcibly exorcising themselves with willpower, much like the Exorcists do. This makes them invisible to daemons (which raises the question of why they call themselves "illuminated"; maybe it's a joke on their part). In the Realm of Chaos sourcebook (from Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader), they were said to be like the Harlequins of the Eldar, running around in the shadows to round up the Emperor's descendents, the Sensei, sacrifice them at the Golden Throne while killing the God-Emperor of Mankind, and cause him to reincarnate into the Star Child.
In the third edition, as part of general grimdarkification, Games Workshop said that the Inquisition had decided that they were actually a Tzeentchian plot to kill the Emperor and plunge the Imperium into Chaos. That said, in the Horus Heresy books it turns out that Malcador the Sigillite might be a member. There was also a campaign run in Italy which involved the Illuminati and the Sensei somehow. The manual, available on archive.org, is in Italian, so we will need to spend some time with machine translation or get an Italian-speaking user to have a go at it before we can talk about what the event actually was about.