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A R ESOURCE ON S LAANESH , THE D ARK P RINCE OF C HAOS

T ABLE OF C ONTENTS

C HAPTER O NE : T HE P RINCE OF P LEASURE 3

The Dark Prince of Chaos

Sample Secret Societies

Young Blades

Excess, Perfection, and Obsession

The Gourmand Society

Chaos Cults of Slaanesh

The Dove & Rose

Gifts of Slaanesh

The Brotherhood

Mortals and Slaanesh

The Bootstrappers’ Guild

The Promise of Perfection

M IRROR OF D ESIRE 26

Background

The Price of Excess

The Mark of Slaanesh

Running the Adventure

Minions of the Dark Prince

Eye for an Eye and Edge of Night

The Hordes of Slaanesh

Recent Events

Marauders of Slaanesh

Kelsydra–the Mirror of Desire

Chaos Warriors of Slaanesh

The Obsession Tracker

Chaos Sorcerers of Slaanesh

Obsessive PCs

Beastmen and Slaanesh

Suitors for the Hand of Esmeralda

C HAPTER T WO : S LAVES OF E XCESS 10

Anatomy of a Creature Card

Leopold von Bruner

Guthrie von Hammastrat

Lesser Servants

Tomas von Karstadt

Greater Servants

Maximillian Aschaﬀ enberg

Mortal Servants of Slaanesh

The Object of Aﬀ ection: Esmeralda

Mark of Slaanesh

Hilda

The Aesthetes

Heissman von Bruner

Other Mortal Warriors

Lord Rickard Aschaﬀ enberg

Daemonic Servants of Slaanesh Stats

Ludmilla Aschaﬀ enberg

Mortal Servants of Slaanesh Stats

Alfred Karstadt

S ECRET S OCIETIES 19

Anatomy of a Secret Society Sheet

Rupert Fenstermacher

Part One: Loved and Lost

Secret Society Sheets

An Old Man’s Bargain

Membership

Why Us?

Special Abilities & Events

What Do We Get?

Inner Circle

Love Conquers All

Talent Slot

Taking Sides

Getting Out

Dealing with the Suitors

I’ve Got a Plan!

The Hopeless Romantic: Leopold von Bruner

The Second Trial: Ancestral Blessing

Encounter: Grand Inspiration

The Third Trial: Places of Power

The Brawny Fool: Guthrie von Hammastrat

And Now for Your Reward...

Encounter: They Say Men Fear the Beast!

Part Three: Fragments of Desire

The Wealthy Commoner: Tomas von Karstadt

Inside the Mirror

Encounter: Bad Debts

Maze of Memories

The Noble Brat: Maximillian Aschaﬀ enberg

The Way Out

Encounter: The Last Laugh

Conclusion

The Maiden’s Note

Notable Personalities

Part Two: Trials of the Heart

Notable Personalities Stats

The First Trial: A Lost Locket

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C HAPTER O NE

T HE P RINCE OF P LEASURE

Slaanesh, called among other things the Prince of Chaos and the

Dark Prince, is the youngest of the Ruinous Powers. His is the

domain of decadence and excess, but only a fool believes that

Slaanesh is concerned only with the idle pleasures of the ﬂ esh.

Rather, Slaanesh is fuelled by extremes of sensation, experience,

and emotion. The Dark Prince of Chaos grants the power to excel

in all things, pushing those who serve him far beyond the normal

limits of human passion, desire, and obsession. None have dreamed

until they have dreamed of the power Slaanesh can grant, their ho-

rizons expanding inﬁ nitely in the very instant their soul is forfeited.

While the Dark Prince is as yet the least of the Four Great Powers,

his potential is limitless, for it is deﬁ ned only by the evils men can

dream of inﬂ icting upon one another.

OF C HAOS

Were a man of the Empire to travel northwards, passing out from

the shadow of the deep forests, over the cold plains of Kislev and

the blasted Troll Country, and into the northern wastes, he would

eventually reach the borders of the Realm of Chaos. The poles of

the world are realms of seething magic centred upon the remains

of the polar gates, where reality and unreality merge, where

the physical and the spiritual intermingle in ways not possible

anywhere else in the mortal realm. Were the traveller to somehow

survive the predations of the savage tribes and ravening, twisted

beasts that haunt the land, he would, perhaps without realising

it, step across an invisible barrier and pass from the real world

of stone, air, and ﬂ esh into a universe that does exist in any true

sense. Rather, the domains into which he has passed are the king-

While none of them would openly acknowledge it, the other

Chaos Powers secretly fear Slaanesh. While Khorne, Nurgle, and

Tzeentch fuel wars, plagues, and machinations within the world of

men, Slaanesh gains power by feeding humanity’s darkest urges,

stoking the ﬁ res of all that drives men forward. Ultimately, such

power is self-sustaining, for heresy begets heresy. One day, Khorne

will run out of foes, Nurgle’s tally of plagues will be completed, and

Tzeentch’s schemes shall reach their conclusion. None, however,

can foresee a time when men shall set aside their darkest passions

and selﬁ sh desires and forego that which they most crave.

T HE D ARK P RINCE

The outermost of the six rings is the Circle of Avidity, where

the intruder is tempted with riches beyond measure, yet to accept

them is to become immobilised in the form of a shimmering statue

of the gold, the soul entrapped within for all time. The Circle of

Gluttony oﬀ ers any sensory excess imaginable, yet to partake of it

is to engorge oneself until the body explodes under the strain. The

third is the Circle of Carnality, a realm of ﬂ eshly pleasures where

daemonettes masquerade in whatever bodily form the intruder

most covets, only to tear him limb from limb before his desires can

be assuaged. The Circle of Paramountcy oﬀ ers power in its many

forms, yet to linger in its halls is to succumb utterly to the doubt

and paranoia that assail even the most outwardly powerful of men.

In the Circle of Vainglory the intruder is seduced by visions of his

own glory, yet his past victories will be mocked for eternity should

he halt in the scented arbours of hubris. The last defence is the

Circle of Indolency, through which one must pass before gaining

egress to Slaanesh’s Palace of Pleasure. It is the most deadly, for it

seduces with the promise of eternal rest yet ultimately grants noth-

ing more than oblivion.

In the guise of welcoming guests to his lands, Slaanesh entraps

both friend and foe. Once enslaved to the Dark Prince’s will, death

is a merciful release of which the damned can only dream. Those

few who somehow pass through the six circles of the Dark Prince’s

domains ﬁ nd themselves before Slaanesh himself. Mortals perceive

Slaanesh as a lithesome youth, clean of limb and of indeterminate

gender, though most perceive him as more male than female. His

features are beguiling and young, and to look upon them is to lose

one’s soul utterly. An eternity of damnation awaits the souls en-

slaved to the blasphemous desires of the Dark Prince of Chaos.

E XCESS , P ERFECTION ,

doms of gods and daemons, a land made from the stuﬀ of souls

and sustained by the dark will of its most powerful inhabitants –

the dread Gods of Chaos.

Within this limitless, shifting Realm of Chaos, each of the Chaos

Gods has his own territory, the unreal borders of which wax and

wane as the power of each ebbs and ﬂ ows. The territory of the Dark

Prince of Chaos can be imagined as a peninsular of spirit-matter, a

spit of land which, while nowhere near as expansive as that claimed

by other gods, is supremely defensible, and utterly under the sway

of Slaanesh.

In particular, the nobility seem most attracted to the gifts of

Slaanesh. Without the need to toil just to place food on the table,

nobles are at leisure to pursue whatever pastimes they desire, and a

life of indolence is strewn with entrapments to ensnare the unwary

soul. Wealth and noble birth grant power, which is all too easily

abused. Nobles have access to resources few others can imagine,

including libraries of ancient texts and treasuries full of priceless

artefacts. What forbidden knowledge and arcane relics lurk within

such places, just waiting to entrap the soul of the dilettante? There

are also stories of noble-owned hunting lodges deep in the Reik-

wald, where the sons and daughters of the Empire’s highest-born

lines retire to practise dalliances they could never risk pursuing in

the cities. Some even claim that by night, they cavort about roaring

ﬁ res with the beastmen of the forests, sealing some unholy pact in

the name of the powers of Old Night.

Unlike the other Ruinous Powers, especially Khorne, Slaanesh

does not maintain a fortress or stronghold as such. Instead, his

court is found inside a vast, shimmering pavilion where the every

excess contrived by humanity is practised to the utmost degree. It

is said that this terrible place heaves with such extremes of emo-

tion and experience that it radiates into the dreams and desires of

mortals, stoking hidden ﬂ ames and nurturing secret desires. It is

even said that such extremes are practised in the form of contests,

adjudicated by Slaanesh himself so that his champions can be cho-

sen and sent into the world to spread their evils amongst men.

Such a place may appear vulnerable to attack by the cohorts of the

Dark Prince’s brother gods. With the hosts of Slaanesh disport-

ing themselves in every manner possible beneath the eaves of his

pavilion, surely his enemies could attack and destroy his domains

once and for all. But Slaanesh’s holdings are well protected indeed,

for their defence is the weakness of the intruders themselves; any

attacker must ﬁ rst pass through six circles of temptation before

entering the Dark Prince’s territory.

But it is not only members of the nobility that seek the extremes

of experience. While many think of Khorne, the God of Blood

and Murder, as the patron of warriors, many such men beseech

the favour of Slaneesh as well. While Khorne revels in the simple,

uncomplicated act of killing, however it is achieved, Slaanesh seeks

the perfection of the killing blow itself and the experience of killing

and dying. Warriors that look to the Dark Prince do so to perfect

their skill at arms into an artful performance, one in which each

AND O BSESSION

Slaanesh gains power and inﬂ uence within the Realm of Chaos

by fuelling and feeding upon extremes of emotion and experience

unleashed within the mortal domains. While no mortal is immune

to the temptations of the Dark Prince, some men are more likely to

attract his attentions than others.

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